[HN Gopher] Noodl is going open source
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       Noodl is going open source
        
       Author : bradrn
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2023-05-30 14:14 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.noodl.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.noodl.net)
        
       | dizhn wrote:
       | It says open "core" on the linked page.
        
         | EvanAnderson wrote:
         | They are using OSI approved licenses (Apache 2.0 and GPLv3)
         | however.
        
         | RobotToaster wrote:
         | To quote
         | 
         | > _Noodl will be available under open-source licenses, with
         | additional features offered in the commercial version._
         | 
         | So only a (small?) part of it will be open source, a number of
         | (unspecified?) features will still be proprietary.
        
         | bityard wrote:
         | Well, it's better than a lot of these "open source" product
         | announcements that are actually not even close to open source.
         | They just want to capture the marketing and SEO advantages of
         | being labeled such. A lot of these have been popping up lately
         | (especially around low/no-code and ML tools) and are actually
         | under a proprietary or other non-open-source license.
         | (Sometimes the founders even push back and say, "but it's on
         | github, you can read all of it, that makes it open source
         | according to my definition!")
         | 
         | Open Core is a fine concept and can work well, my only ask is
         | that companies which do it clearly explain which
         | features/functionality are in each version so that I don't have
         | to sift through marketing drivel to figure it out myself. Or
         | start using the software and click on an interesting button
         | only to be told, "oh snap, you gotta pay for that."
        
           | ssddanbrown wrote:
           | > Sometimes the founders even push back and say, "but it's on
           | github, you can read all of it, that makes it open source
           | according to my definition!"
           | 
           | Last year I started to take an interest in these kinds of
           | cases and created a repo to document such projects and their
           | communications on the matter. Here's the repo if this is an
           | area of intrigue for you too:
           | https://github.com/ssddanbrown/Open-Source-Confusion-Cases
        
         | unixhero wrote:
         | Anything that says open core...
        
       | sn0wf1re wrote:
       | Does anyone know how this compares to Windmill?
       | 
       | https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
        
         | gervwyk wrote:
         | Shameless plug; Also check out Lowdefy [0], it's open source
         | and built on top of next.js
         | 
         | https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy
        
         | Reubend wrote:
         | Disclaimer: I haven't personally used either of them
         | 
         | Windmill says it's focused on internal tooling, whereas Noodl
         | showcases many external apps which were built using their
         | platform.
        
       | kroken wrote:
       | Not to be confused with the event planning tool
       | https://nuudel.de/, which is using framadate, whose source code
       | is here: https://framagit.org/framasoft/framadate/framadate
        
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