List of formerly open-source software
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This is a list of notable software packages which were published as free and open-source software, or into the public domain, but were proprietized, such that later versions were only released under a proprietary software license.
Title | Original release | Relicensed release | Initial free license | Notes |
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Boot to Gecko/Firefox OS, proprietized as KaiOS | 2013 | 2017 | MPL | Still uses GPL Linux kernel, but otherwise proprietary |
FBReader | 2013 | 2015 | GPL | Apparently the number of devs was limited, and they all agreed to relicense it. |
LiveJournal | 1999 | 2014 | GPL | The source code was made private in 2014. |
LiveCode | 2013 | 2021 | GPL | The Livecode company developed it, ran a Kickstarter campaign to GPL it, ran it for eight years-open-source, and then relicensed it back to proprietary, saying there were few other contributors, most were using the free GPL version, and they couldn't sustain the project.[1] |
October (CMS) | 2014 | 2021 | MIT License | [2] |
PyMOL | 2000 | 2010 | Python License[3] | [4][5][6][7] |
Tux Racer | 2000 | 2002 | GPL | Commercial expansion by original authors, also called "Tux Racer". |
Nexuiz | 2005 | 2012 | GPL | As Nexuiz (2012 video game). Original forked into Xonotic. Several core devs agreed to relicensing the code, "Nexuiz" name, and domain; other devs disputed their right to relicense code written by non-consenting devs.[8] |
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References[]
- ^ Anderson, Tim (2021-09-06). "Why we abandoned open source: LiveCode CEO on retreat despite successful kickstarter". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
- ^ "October CMS Moves to Become a Paid Platform". October. 2021-04-12. Archived from the original on 2021-06-03. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- ^ now a custom license granting broad use, redistribution, and modification rights, but assigning copyright to any version to Schrodinger, LLC.
- ^ "PyMOL | pymol.org". pymol.org. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
Open-Source Philosophy
PyMOL is a commercial product, but we make most of its source code freely available under a permissive license. The open source project is maintained by Schrödinger and ultimately funded by everyone who purchases a PyMOL license.
Open source enables open science.
This was the vision of the original PyMOL author Warren L. DeLano. - ^ "schrodinger/pymol-open-source". GitHub. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
- ^ "PyMOL Molecular Graphics System". SourceForge.
- ^ "Open-Source PyMOL". Schrodinger, Inc. 2021-11-05. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
- ^ "Nexuiz Founder Licenses It For Non-GPL Use". Slashdot. 2010-03-22. Retrieved 2016-10-30.
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