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by olliesaunders 5007 days ago
It seems its only free for non-commercial use, ergo not free.
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You are absolutely right. I was excited because I can finally read the code and learn something from it.

But of course the implication "open source -> I can use it anywhere I want" is broken in this case. The author should have been a little more careful in not abusing that term, even if this was posted on his blog.

I am well aware of that licence, I myself had to use it for some code I wrote while at MSR [1]. I was not happy at all about the non-commercial clause, but it was either that or not releasing the code. I guess the same happened here.

[1] https://github.com/ot/path_decomposed_tries/blob/master/LICE...