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by jchw 312 days ago
I would love to hear your explanation for why you think that statement is an invocation of "no true Scotsman" of all things. Are you sure you know what that means?
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Because I anticipate the following:

A: If you make a license that actually discriminates on user or use case, then it's not open source.

B: But here are n open source projects that discriminate on user or use case, e.g. everything GPL, everything with dual license, etc.

A: yeeeeeeaaaah, but those aren’t TRUE open source projects!!! A true open source project would never do that!