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by bradrydzewski 2231 days ago
Kyle is one of the authors of Polyform and the Polyform website specifically states that these licenses are not Open Source.

> PolyForm is not Open source or free software. There are plenty of existing open source licenses. PolyForm is not a substitute for them, but an alternative for those who want to license source code under limited rights.

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Apologies to Kyle, I only skimmed the website and took his stance by comments here and not statements about PolyForm from the PolyForm website.

My opinions still voiced, substituting PolyForm for licenses which are of the offending nature I describe.

Such as?
Such as what? Could you be more specific please?