# Making Obsidian's network & sync components source-available

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/making-obsidians-network-sync-components-source-available/21664>\
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**Created:** [July 28, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/making-obsidians-network-sync-components-source-available/21664 "2021-07-28T16:51:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![argentum](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/argentum/32/7733_2.png) [@argentum](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/argentum)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/making-obsidians-network-sync-components-source-available/21664/5 "2021-07-28T19:16:40Z")

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Absolutely, however this needs to be posted for other users that may stumble upon this thread, given that there are no plans to make Obsidian source-available or open source in the foreseeable future. This has been discussed extensively in the open source thread and we have a definitive answer from the devs:

> [@Open Sourcing of Obsidian](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/38):
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> To recap,
> 
> - As a user, it would be great if the app can continue to work if we go out of business.
> - As a business, we don’t want to go out of business.
> - As a user, it would be great if there’s a lot of “competition”.
> - As a business, it’s really stressful if competitors can take your work, copy it and sell it as their own. Licenses don’t prevent copying, and lawsuits are expensive and time consuming.
> 
> I think we are both right, but for us as a business it just makes more sense to stay close sourced. This is unlikely to change for the foreseeable future.

I’ll add that given that Sync is key to the sustainability of Obsidian, this component in particular is unlikely to become source-available (imo) at all.

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