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by mdaniel 326 days ago
The "Open Source" button on their homepage is a lie, it's actually BSL 1.1 https://github.com/mediar-ai/terminator/blob/main/LICENSE
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louis030195 313 days ago
just changed to MIT: https://github.com/mediar-ai/terminator

enjoy!

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louis030195 326 days ago
We use the same license as Sentry. We're not volunteers, happy to create positive-sum future.
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mdaniel 326 days ago
It's your toy, you're welcome to license it however you wish. You are not welcome to call a source-available license as Open Source, because it is not open, it is just available for reading

Citing Sentry as inspiration is almost as bad as citing Hashicorp, since they both decided they were open until it inconvenienced them

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louis030195 326 days ago
Thanks for the feedback!

What would be the best approach? MIT/Apache? Or closed source?

Appreciate advice

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gkbrk 326 days ago
How else are they supposed to get developer mindshare and free contributors without pretending to be Open Source?

Won't you think of the poor 40 million dollar business?

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