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But what about BSL? Or SSPL? Or ELv2? Where is the real line drawn? At OSI's stamp of approval, or is it more nuanced?
by ezekg 3y ago
But what about BSL? Or SSPL? Or ELv2? Where is the real line drawn? At OSI's stamp of approval, or is it more nuanced?
- mattl 3y agoCan you post links to those licenses? Typically the licenses which don't qualify are non-commercial licenses or have rules about who can and can't use the software under those licenses, which makes them non-free/non-open source.
- ezekg 3y agoSure. What you said is exactly what the poll is meant to answer. - https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html - https://spdx.org/licenses/SSPL-1.0.html https://spdx.org/licenses/SSPL-1.0.html - https://spdx.org/licenses/Elastic-2.0 https://spdx.org/licenses/Elastic-2.0 These are not OSI-approved, but some may argue could be considered 'effectively open source' for most use cases.