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by loctran0323 10 days ago
Yea good point, the branding clause is a real gotcha, technically "open source" but with that restriction baked in, which makes it source-available rather than properly free under the OSI definition. A lot of people don't realize until they try to fork or rebrand it for a team/customer deployment and hit the wall.

Conifer (launching tomorrow, June 1st) goes the other way on this, properly open source with no branding strings attached, so you can actually fork or rebrand if you need to. Local AI runtime + IDE, native on Mac/Linux/Windows: conifer.build