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Using "open source" to mean a very specific thing is value signaling. I'm not ashamed to say that.
It signals to others in an established community that you share their values.
Or, it can help grow the community by creating an opportunity to talk about those values, and why they are important to you.
If they find the values compelling, maybe they join in.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #OSS #FOSS #SoftwareFreedom
@msw software is always in relationship to who has push rights and how that power is governed, not just the current state of the code (license).
Open relationship with agreed-upon values: foss
No values and open: I won’t publish my opinion on who might fit
Public relationship: not at all open. Maybe contractual partners contribute
Private relationship: proprietary
The social part is hard for programmers, so most just focus on rules lawyering the license.
@msw I think it's a shame that “value-signaling” is something we have to second-guess. I've been thinking a lot about this lately, and one of the more salient things I've read so far is this article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thoughts-thinking/201710/virtues-values-and-moral-bullying.
@msw It absolutely is virtue signaling. And there's a lot of good to that. But sometimes those virtues are oversold. There is more to being open, free, and universally available than licensing.
@jamiexml there is a difference between signaling values and signaling virtue.