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by ryanrussell 1149 days ago
Can we please not call this open source if it's not?

The tool may be great, but the title leaves me skeptical of anything else.

From: https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/blob/master/LICENSE

Business Source License 1.1

Parameters

Licensor: Uptrace Licensed Work: Uptrace The Licensed Work is (c) 2021 Uptrace Additional Use Grant: You may make use of the Licensed Work, provided that you may not use the Licensed Work for a Tracing and Metrics Service.

                      A "Tracing and Metrics Service" is a commercial offering
                      that allows third parties (other than your employees and
                      contractors) to access the functionality of the
                      Licensed Work so that such third parties directly benefit
                      from the tracing and metrics of the Licensed Work.
2 comments

How then we should call it instead, if the source code is openly available?
the source is right there in the open. licensing is a different story.
"Open-source" has a very specific definition which the BSL does not satisfy.