> It’s just that for me the phrase “exclusivity period” would imply that you could compete as a provider of sufficiently-old versions. And technically you can,

> It’s just that for me the phrase “exclusivity period” would imply that you could compete as a provider of sufficiently-old versions. And technically you can, except the script kiddies will take you down in a heartbeat, and in that respect you’re in a very different world from the one the original developer was at that point in the past even if alternative offerings are ignored. I give you an analogy from the real world: MySQL was bought by Sun and then merged into Oracle. The original developers didn’t even like that direction and forked the project and build MariaDB. Some of the code they took was even older than the latest release. There can always be situations where a project withers for years and you get stuck with a license that impedes commercial revitalization. The FSL doesn’t come with that risk.