[kakwa_]

Restricting Usage or Distribution makes it de-facto not OSS.

It's actually a slightly different form of an old debate. I'm thinking in particular about the Crockford license (the MIT-like one with "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." bit). It was determined to be non-free quite a while back due to such restrictions.

That being said, it hard to be a commercially successful software editor with an OSS model (RethinkDB comes to mind).

I do understand why BSL exists, but it feels to me like an unsatisfactory compromise.