Agilicious is not open source

[spencerfolk]

The actual code is hidden behind an (intentionally?) opaque request process that literally requires a photo ID (???). There is no guarantee of receiving the code, there is no clear statement on the deciding factors for acceptance/rejection, nor is there a stated timeline between request submission and decision. Take note of all the Github Issues on this repository asking for an update on their access requests.

The Agilicious license agreement doesn't follow Open Source Initiative definitions of open source software: it does not grant the rights to freely modify, distribute, or sublicense the code and because of the obscure code request process we can't be sure there isn't discrimination.

This is false or misleading advertising.

[m0sys]

I think Bitcraze is the standard for what it means to be open-hardware/open-source in the UAV space. And perhaps if this was just as open you would have a large community gathered around it like theirs to build cool software/content around it. Food for thought.

Is this open-source? Hardly. Is this just PR? Probably. What do people in the community think about this? Just look at what happened to ClosedAI.

P.S. love the work this team produces! Just the papers alone are enough for some level of reproducibility/inspiration and I think more research labs should participate in open-access in other industries. But that's the thing - its only in our culture/community that "open-x" has really become a staple. And we understand that there's times to make things open and other times to make them commercial and their nothing fundamentally wrong about either thanks to Linux vs Windows days. Its just the advertising that's the issue here.