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Re: Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create

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Post by vincent-lemoign »

renewiltord wrote: post #122
samuelstros wrote: post #59

Why is this open-source? Neither is the source of the (free) icons available, nor is the license (CC 4.0) approved by OSI as "open source". Don't get me wrong I am not an evangelist praising the OSI. But not even having the source (figma/sketch files, repository) available definitely abuses the term open source.

CC-BY 4.0 is a perfectly good open license for non-source-code. OSI lists licenses for code, which is why it doesn’t list CC 4.0 licenses. Finally, go check out the license for the OSI website. It’s CC-BY 4.0, same as this. It’s not even at the degree of sleight of hand as treating dy/dx as a fraction. It’s perfectly cromulent, not abusive of “open source” and perfectly in line with the principles. I know the HN comm…

Thank you. This was a bloodbath.

Re: Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create

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Post by unstatusthequo »

xunn0026 wrote: post #54

I have learned to stay away from open-core icon sets. It seems like they are doing a very nice balancing act where the icons you need later on happen to be in the paid section. I also dislike this is promoted as an open source icon set. This is a commercial product providing free samples. By design, it has a funnel of free / 'open source' users of which some will be turned into customers. Finally, it's amazing to me…

Well you clearly feel strongly, but it came off as a bit harsh when the creator spent 12 years on these. How is this different than shareware or 30 day software trials or feature limited trials? Free stuff shows the quality, nature, general function. If you need more or need to use it commercially (to make money yourself), you have to pay to upgrade. Seems pretty much like this approach is analogous.

Re: Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create

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Post by xunn0026 »

unstatusthequo wrote: post #132
xunn0026 wrote: post #54

I have learned to stay away from open-core icon sets. It seems like they are doing a very nice balancing act where the icons you need later on happen to be in the paid section. I also dislike this is promoted as an open source icon set. This is a commercial product providing free samples. By design, it has a funnel of free / 'open source' users of which some will be turned into customers. Finally, it's amazing to me…

Well you clearly feel strongly, but it came off as a bit harsh when the creator spent 12 years on these. How is this different than shareware or 30 day software trials or feature limited trials? Free stuff shows the quality, nature, general function. If you need more or need to use it commercially (to make money yourself), you have to pay to upgrade. Seems pretty much like this approach is analogous.

This is more of a reason. I've never heard of somebody writing software alone for 10 years and the releasing it.

If anything open source should encourage early open sourcing, doing work in the public, accepting contributions, etc.

I think it's more like a shareware, ie. not open source.

Re: Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create

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Post by xunn0026 »

vincent-lemoign wrote: post #130
xunn0026 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is the source code? Where do I open a PR to include a new icon or to fix one?

Good point, I don't think that you can include a new icon or fix one. Source code is here https://github.com/webalys-hq/streamline-vectors/blob/main/R... and in https://www.figma.com/@05466272_9382_4 . Thank you for the feedback.

I assume you didn't write SVGs by hand for 10 years.

Publishing open source is like me publishing only the binaries of my tool and thn saying because it's free it's also 'open source'.

So, assuming you used some tool (Photoshop, Figma, etc) to export to SVG, open source would mean you publish the original files too.

Re: Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create

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Post by vincent-lemoign »

karmakaze wrote: post #115

Could be a very interesting collection. What it really needs is an search function or tag name autocomplete. I'm not about to 'browse' through thousands of tags to find relevant ones. Cmd-F helps, but why is that necessary?

there is a search function right up at the top. There's global search and individual set search available. Are you not able to find that?
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