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by throwaway54-762 5007 days ago
Er, technically this license doesn't stop forks -- they are explicitly allowed -- but it definitely propagates the non-commercial clause. I agree, it's definitely not Open Source.
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I meant that it doesn't allow arbitrary forking. There are cases in which it's illegal to keep using it, whereas with the GPL at most you'd have to release the derivative source to your (paying) users.