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When will it be OpenSource? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am sorry if this has been asked before, but when or will it be open sourced. It is the best Lemmy Client i have used yet but i dont like anything being closed source and i read somewhere the dev wants to open source it at some point. Just interested if there is an estimate.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Not OP, but I'd like to contribute if possible. I am a developer and I am quite experienced in building both Android and web apps. IMO the biggest upside of the software being open source is not that the code is auditable (although that is definitely a plus as well) but that others can contribute to the development of the application as well.

If the dev wants to monetize the app later on, they can still have an open source "core" but bolt on "premium" features that can be proprietary. Think of Chromium and Chrome or (ironically) CentOS and RHEL. It also increases the bus factor as others can take up the mantle if the current dev no longer can/wants to maintain the app.