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by arethuza 4751 days ago
My reading of that is that you aren't allowed to redistribute any modifications or use it for anything other than accessing the tarsnap service.

So not really open source software in any sense that I understand.

[NB My comments is not intended as a criticism of tarsnap or Colin's licensing policy - he wrote it so, in my book, he can license it any way he wants.]
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sigil 4751 days ago
> Redistribution and use...without modification, is permitted for the sole purpose of using the "tarsnap" service.

(emphasis mine) This sounds like there are no restrictions on distributing modified source / binaries.

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cperciva 4751 days ago
Quite the opposite: No permission is given to distribute modified versions, so you're not allowed to do it.
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bnr 4751 days ago
It's open source, allright. Free Software is the term you are looking for.
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throwaway2048 4751 days ago
Free to distribute is one of the fundamental defining things about open source [1]. Lets not water it down to the point of meaninglessness like words like `open' currently are.

[1]http://opensource.org/osd

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