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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 2 points 11 months ago

Sure, you can do all of that, fine by me. What you should not do is take that proprietary construct, slap the term "freedom" on in and try to muddy the waters of the FOSS licensing landscape neven further for your own gain.