>Can I and you and almost everyone except Google Gloud, Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure use it exactly as if it is open source? No, definitely not. I elaborated

>Can I and you and almost everyone except Google Gloud, Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure use it exactly as if it is open source? No, definitely not. I elaborated on why "liberal" is inappropriate here in a different comment: >There are widely accepted definitions for "liberal" among the open source community. The main differentiating factor of a liberal license is that it's not viral. Most people informed on this subject can then neatly and objectively file licenses into liberal and restrictive categories, with licenses like MIT, BSD, and Apache in the liberal camp, and the GPL family of licenses in the restrictive camp. However, the distinction has always been subjective, and nothing like the OSD exists. Additionally, the distinction is only ever applied in the comparison of open source licenses, of which yours is not a member. The realm of proprietary licenses masquarading as open source licenses is unexplored territory, and I'm drawing a line: no matter how restrictive a license like AGPL is, a license which is not even open source in the first place is far from liberal. I also wrote here about how this affects people like you and I: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17830644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17830644