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Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding (blog.sentry.io)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sentry has moved to a new license for its products called Functional Source License, and explains in this article the story of the licensing for these products and why they throw BSL for FSL.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree that that would be excellent, but I think there is still a difference, like Linux they do allow a company to use (but not for anything, only for some things) and enhance their open source software instead of paying for their service without contributing it back.