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saddist0 | 4 months ago

Honestly, FSL doesn't break any flow for day to day developers. What's the harm? I am curious to know. On the contrary I like competitive vs non-competitive distinction.

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DetroitThrow|4 months ago

Most of us don't want to let a court decide if we compete with a very general distinction you describe, and can't afford lawyers to evaluate a 2 year old license without much case law.

Most of us prefer not to bring on a dependency in our project that is primarily designed to extract commercial value from users and is less friendly to contributors than similar open source projects.

sarchertech|4 months ago

It’s because big tech companies have spent millions to foster goodwill towards the OSI Open Source definition. And there’s a general feeling that software that fits that definition is pure and any that doesn’t is unclean.