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I have read the link to the shor version and this part is precisely the issue: > So I chose the Apache License version 2 with Common Clause as a license, which
by alexvoda 4y ago
I have read the link to the shor version and this part is precisely the issue:
> So I chose the Apache License version 2 with Common Clause as a license, which means that n8n was not an OSI-approved open-source project.
> When I launched n8n, I called it “open-source” (note the quotation marks), and everywhere I mentioned that it uses Apache License version 2 with Common Clause, to make it clear.
You will draw anger if you try to dilute the term "open source".
When it comes to monetizing projects by offering them as a service, I would much prefer the BSL shared-source approach that automatically transitions into a true open source license after a fixed ammount of time instead of an OSI licence tainted with a CC so it is no longer OSI aprooved, neither in spirit nor in writing. A CC tainted licence si no longer open and no longer free as in freedom respecting.
And without a fallback to an open license after a time, it will be tainted forever and therefore useless to the open and free ecosystem.
- alexvoda 4y agoThe issue however appears to have been corrected, ddevault's issue said the website stated it is open source. The website now states it is source available.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agofree software and open source and source available. there is a lot of difference between them and people need to know about it. free software is not restricted to definition by OSI, while open source is. source available is just that. >You will draw anger if you try to dilute the term "open source". open source and free software both