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Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding (blog.sentry.io)

submitted 11 months ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Sentry has moved to a new license for its products called Functional Source License, and explains in this article the story of the licensing for these products and why they throw BSL for FSL.

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[–] ck_@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago

Except its not like Linux at all. Linux uses the GPL which imposes no usage restrictions. This is why the GPL is a free software license and the FSL is a proprietary software license.