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by skybrian 860 days ago
This blog post interprets saying “it’s not open source, though” as if it were a criticism of releasing software under various other source-available licenses.

Maybe some people mean it that way, but for me it’s purely about not watering down terms that have a clear meaning. Sometimes source-available licenses are better for the business and it’s understandable why some businesses do that. It’s less generous, but still a good thing.

(Just like it’s understandable that people don’t make source code available for all their software.)