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Thunderbird Launches Open-Source Premium Webmail Service (cyberinsider.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

'Open source', a phrase deliberately engineered with several different meanings, is very effective at scamming us out of libre software.

A service cannot have a software license. It is a service, not software. We are not bound by a software license when someone else runs their software on their device.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Could the AGPL license help with this? I'm no expert (not even an amateur) but that seems to be why it was constructed:

If you let users access any AGPL licensed software over a network, then that is also a form of distribution. This is what the GPL had missed out. With the boom of the cloud era, SaaS has exploded, and instead of distributing software directly, developers and vendors started digitally delivery of software.

https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-the-agpl-the-most-misunderstood-license-86fd1fe91275

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, correct, and the title does not say AGPL or libre software. 'Open source service' is a nonsense.

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