Defold game engine source now available and free to use for commercial games
geez, what's up with all these armchair open source experts on HN? Looks like too many people on this thread thinks this is evil.<p>A company gave away their app making tool for free, and these people are sitting in front of their keyboard talking shit about how "this is subverting the definition of 'open source'", seriously?<p>Also what's so evil about the clause:<p>> "You can not commercialise original or modified (derivative) versions of the Defold editor and/or engine" does not meet (6).<p>What's so wrong about businesses trying to give back to the community while protecting themselves against the likes of Microsoft and Amazon who will naturally take the code and monetize if there's no clause that restricts anti competition?<p>Lastly, who the hell cares what some website called opensource.org says what open source is? This is all subjective, and from my point of view, if the source code is open, it is "open" source. There are many reasons people open source their projects, for transparency, for giving assurance to the ecosystem, etc. By trying to box the definition down to a single very narrow minded idea, you're actually hurting the growth of open source instead of helping.