I had a chance to synch with @aglitchman and several more people in a chat. Let me post a summary here for logging reasons:
- Most people actually care about the source code access infinitely more than about Defold being open source.
- In fact people actually like Defold having official vision, direction, philosophy and the development plan.
- People want source code access for two reasons:
1 - Security and safety “just in case”
2 - To quickly peek on the code and see why their way of doing things in Defold is slow - As to bugfixes and possible open source contribution, people seem to be happy about the current model where they may contribute to Native Extensions or fork their custom implementations of the provided NEs.
Now of course we discussed it in a small group and Lerg’s motivation above also makes a lot of sense. So everyone is welcome to add to the discussion, provide additional points or just reiterate and agree on some of the points. This helps us to prioritise our work.