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ricardobeat • today at 11:37 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Looks nice. Two main differences:

- BUSL is OSI-approved and listed in SPDX, so corporate lawyers won't be scared away by it: https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html

- With BUSL the restriction is revenue-based. You can still create competing products, but would have to pay a licensing fee.

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xorcist • today at 12:25 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License:

  Debian FSG compatible No
  FSF approved          No
  OSI approved          No
  GPL compatible        No
  Copyleft              No
Tomte • today at 11:52 AM

> BUSL is OSI-approved

Of course it isn‘t.

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mihaelm • today at 11:40 AM

Good points, the second is very "dual-licensing" in nature. BUSL is certainly the more "mature" option and there's a higher likelihood people came across it in the wild.