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by Pannoniae 1064 days ago
Yeah, you've put it way better than I could ever have, thanks. I just massively dislike how they pretend the OSI has a trademark over the word "open source" (which they don't) and that they presume everyone wants to have their work be freely combinable with others.

If you use it, great, if you don't want to because you are afraid of the legal issues, no problem. It's massive entitlement to think that just because you released the source code, anyone should be granted the four freedoms to essentially do whatever with it. (Which includes the SaaS loophole as well....)

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If you don't want to grant the four basic freedoms, simply don't call your license open source. Stop trying to mooch off of the goodwill around open source software.