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skeledrewyesterday at 9:33 PM1 replyview on HN

A thing cannot be considered free/open source if there are restrictions on what users can do with it. If a maintainer wishes to put a "don't compete commercially" license then it should be clearly labelled as source available, not open source. To do otherwise is to deceive the open source community, which has a particular and well defined understanding of what "open source" entails.


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luipugsyesterday at 9:58 PM

Are you arguing that copyleft is not open source?

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