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exelib | 2 years ago

TBH, I love BSL licenses. You can use it as you want for free, except being a competitor, and there is a high chance of a sustainable business model. (What benefit do you expect if the company goes bankrupt?) Despite the unpopular opinion, you have free and easy access to the code, so it is open source in the sense of words. Just not in the sense that you can steal their business like AWS does. Feel free to start a similar project, invest your time and money, and make it available under whatever license you want.

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ensignavenger|2 years ago

It doesn't matter how much you love it. It is still not open source.

exelib|2 years ago

It is open for me to use as I please. And I don't want to destroy their business. I can understand your ideological drive, but in reality it doesn't matter until you behave unethically and steal their intellectual property. Do you want that?