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echoangleyesterday at 10:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

But it’s saying that tailwind isn’t free software because it is MIT licensed. Why doesn’t MIT license count as free software?


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stvltvsyesterday at 11:19 PM

Because it's not Free Software™.

https://www.osweekly.com/free-software-vs-open-source-why-th...

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sublinearyesterday at 11:24 PM

Yeah I'm still not following the loaded premise of this question. It's just a table telling people what the project is about.

An MIT-licensed project trying to not scare people away might have the same comparison table in their readme. They'd just flip around the green checkmark and red X.