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by sitapati 2514 days ago
The OSI might become irrelevant if all the open source projects end up using licenses that it says are not open source...
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zoobab 2514 days ago
Plus this kind of "Not on AWS" restriction goes against Freedom0:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."

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sitapati 2514 days ago
It's more "Not by AWS", but yeah - that makes it non-free. Stallman would be rolling over in his grave, if he wasn't still alive to write an email about it in emacs.
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