A more accurate framing would be that Fizzy issource available. You can read it, run it, and modify it. But DHH’s company is keeping the SaaS rights because they want to be able to build a sustainable business. That is defensible and generous, but it is not open source.

Dries Buytaert follows up on my response to DHH with ‘Source available’ is not open source (and that’s okay).

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