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nextaccounticyesterday at 12:39 AM2 repliesview on HN

Is Zed open source or not?

If it's open source it can't have a license agreement to use the software itself

Or is this an agreement to use some cloud service? Supposedly you can opt to not use it

Elsewhere people said that "even if you disable telemetry, Zed can still collect telemetry" but, it being open source means you're still in control

No open source license can force you to run misfeatures


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freehorseyesterday at 9:49 AM

> The Terms of Service and the open source editor are separate. Zed's editor is licensed under GPL v3 (with Apache 2.0 for certain components). Those licenses govern the software itself and haven't changed. The Terms of Service apply when you create a Zed account and use our hosted services. If you use the editor without signing in, the open source licenses are the only thing that applies, and the new terms codify this more clearly than the old.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/50568#issuecomm...

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NewsaHackOyesterday at 12:51 PM

After MinIO, I don't care if a VC-backed product is open source or not, frankly. Especially if it has a CLA to contribute (which this one does).