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[–] Esmoreit@lemmings.world 13 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Loops will be open sourced later they say.

Is Loops open source? It will be! We plan on open sourcing the platform after it reaches a stable and easy to maintain state.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That really is not a satisfying answer. It is incredibly nebulous and even if it did have a nice definition I guarantee most software developers will tell you a lot of software rarely reaches that state.

I can see why they might want to avoid 1000 GitHub issues bike shedding things but they could open source the code and just not have open contribution

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

or they can also disable submitting issues for now

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That means very little to me. Actions speak louder than words, and it would probably help the development of loops if it was actually open source.

[–] MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago

Made by the same dev as Pixelfed, which did a similar thing.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Loops is anti-libre software confirmed.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works -1 points 8 hours ago

anti? is it against libre software? because it doesn't seem so

[–] stevo887@lemmings.world 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Why does software have a political stance?

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It's missing a libre software licence text file.