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by svnpenn 1382 days ago
> That said, this clause only exists in this particular OSL license, so it only applies to software distributed under it.

Nope:

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/cecill-2.1

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/eupl-1.2

> Some quick googling indicates that OSL is 20 years old, and OSL v3 (the latest version), is 17

what does that have to do with anything? A license can be old, its still valid.

> The terms of this license are so restrictive and cumbersome as to make it basically useless

I see this often. This is business speak for "we don't like the terms of some license, so that license is useless for everyone". For anyone willing to respect the license terms, they can have full access to the software.