Project claims to be open source but doesn't share the source

[philcryer]

This project looks interesting, but on http://restya.com/board/ it says, "Open source. Trello like kanban board. Based on Restya platform." but then on the GitHub project page, RestyaPlatform/board, it says "Source code will be pushed once AWS AMI is ready for sale (One of our revenue options)" I don’t think open source means what you think it does. Can you fix this issue?

[jfklingler]

+1

[defmacro-jam]

+1

[OogieBoogieInJSON]

I pay 10$. Just push the source here.

[ayoung012]

+1 hardly in the spirit of open source projects. I came here hoping to make contributions, but I doubt with this model that I will even be about to make so much as a pull request

[rrjanbiah]

@philcryer Are you saying that open source projects shouldn't make money (to survive)? If so, can you share little more information on this? We have mentioned our monetization policy here http://restya.com/

From our understanding, Magento adopts similar strategy. In case, if there's any misunderstanding on our end, we'll take appropriate course of action (either to close it down or not to monetize it). Sorry.

Thanks

[supwr]

It's, at best, a misdirection. When a company says it hosts its products on github, it makes developers believe that the source code will be available for better understanding, enhancing, forking and getting contributions back from the community. When a company says it hosts products on github it shows engagement with the software and open source community, and it's clearly not the case.

[rrjanbiah]

@marcpires How's that different from Magento?

[supwr]

I have access to magento source code, that's available on github. https://github.com/magento/magento2

[rrjanbiah]

@marcpires What are you trying to convey here? I'm quite confused. Please read above. We're saying that we'll push code along with making AWS AMI available for sale--so that we don't miss revenue option.

[philcryer]

@rrjanbiah "@philcryer Are you saying that open source projects shouldn't make money (to survive)? If so, can you share little more information on this?"

I'm absolutely not saying that, you can make money off of open source software, but if you want to claim your work is open source it needs to be licensed properly, and then you need to follow the constraints laid out in that license. Details: http://opensource.org/faq#commercial

I appreciate your responses, it looks like you have some good software, I wish you good luck with it!

[philcryer]

@rrjanbiah "@marcpires How's that different from Magento?"

So this project is different from Magento because Magento has:

• the source code is available: magento/magento2
• an open source license posted with the source code
• (additionally, though not required) documentation showing how to build and run your own version of the software: install guide

[supwr]

+1

[rrjanbiah]

Thanks everyone for your interest and patience. We'll push code along with license, etc.

[MrJoy]

So.... Any ETA?

[rrjanbiah]

Approx 22nd. Thanks for your patience.

[rrjanbiah]

Released now, FYI

[actuallymab]

congratz @rrjanbiah it looks pretty!

[rrjanbiah]

Thank you