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points by paaloeye 3 days ago | 0 comments
I always thought CorridorKey was free and open-source
[–] bramhaag 3 days ago
You would think so considering the creator constantly calls it that, but it is merely source-available. This has been repeatedly brought up along with other very questionable license decisions [0]. The charitable interpretation is that the creator is very confused about what open source is and isn't.

Here's a summary:

- The project is licensed under the "Corridor Key License" [1], which is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 with extra clauses that permit commercial use of you have their blessing (That's right, CC BY-NC with commercial use allowed).

- CC licenses should not be used for software, and the non-commercial restrictions make this project not open source.

- This project is based on Hiera, which licenses its weights under CC BY-NC 4.0 [2]. Again, non-commercial. He is selling this.

- The license was changed a few times after the community rewrote large parts of this project. The contributors should've retained their copyright to their contributed code as there was no CLA or similar, but to my knowledge their code was relicensed without their consent.

[0] https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey/issues?q=licens...

[1] https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey/blob/main/LICEN...

[2] https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey/issues/152

[–] sorenjan 3 days ago
Interesting that the only issue on CorridorKey2.0 repo is about the licensing issue, then they turned off issues.

https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey2.0/issues/2

[–] gewetensleegte 3 days ago
yeah I mean I watch them for the VFX commentary that I think is interesting not for their ethics, it's quite easy to cross that line as a big youtuber, you need to make a bit of an effort, instead they just make some questionable choices
[–] david_van_loon 3 days ago
The underlying software is free and open-source: https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey2.0

The commercial package primarily consists of commercially supported plugins.

[–] Yukonv 3 days ago
Clarification required as the project is NOT open source following OSI definition[1]. It should be advertised as source available as the license is restrictive in how you may use the software.

[1] https://opensource.org/education/what-is-open-source

[–] dozerly 3 days ago
They explicitly call that out and mention if folks want to use it for paid projects, to just reach out. Thats a caveat obviously, but the intentions seem noble