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by viraptor 196 days ago
This is not a space for "language evolves". Open source has very specific definitions and the distinctions there matter for legal purposes https://opensource.org/licenses
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The terms of the licenses have legal bearing. The definitions of open source are a historical accident that mostly traces back to "well GPLv2 already exists".
the software community is the one trying to evolve the language in favor of this software license specific use case