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defnotdallas
Is it _really_ open source if even just viewing anything requires an account?
boleary-gl
You can explore the public projects here: https://opensource.ieee.org/explore
mdaniel
I wish there was a less email-centric workflow to contact the HN mods, because I think your link is much better than a sign in page for showing off the intended content
curlew_owed
That page is available by clicking the link that says "Explore groups and projects" on the page that is linked in this post.
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phoe-krk
It's a discoverability problem of that particular page; as a sibling comment mentioned, it's possible to view the public project, it's just that this site has no link to /explore - just /search from what I could see.
mattl
Is it really open source if there's no repo at all? Absolutely
mattl
It’s perfectly valid for someone to just release tarballs of their source code releases. You don’t need a bunch of infrastructure to share software.
scrollaway
The GPL allows you to not publish the source, as long as you provide it on request. Several older “open source” projects were distributed exclusively by CD-ROM.
dec0dedab0de
Yes. Open source is about being able to modify and redistribute code for the products you already have access to. It's not about just giving everything to everyone.
SighMagi
An IEEE service that would be actually useful.