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The license comes with restrictions on what you can use your derivative works for - e.g. not creating an in-memory datastore service. It's essentially an Apache
by geewee 4y ago
The license comes with restrictions on what you can use your derivative works for - e.g. not creating an in-memory datastore service. It's essentially an Apache 2 with a "Also AWS can't just steal it and sell it as a service when it gets huge"
Is it open-source? Well, depending on your definition probably not. Is it a fair license? Yeah I'd think so.
- akvadrako 4y agoIt is open-source, no question. What you might mean is that it isn't free/libre as in FOSS.
- codetrotter 4y agoThat’s the Stallman kind of point of view. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source section "Open" versus "free" versus "free and open" But to a lot of us, “open source” has a specific meaning as well. > Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. https://opensource.org/osd/ https://opensource.org/osd/
- exelib 4y agoFrom my point of view, for example, GPL is not "open" at all. And yet it is on the list. In my opinion, BSL is even more "open" than GPL. Feel free to have a different view.