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Then by definition it isn't open source, violating points 3, 4, and 6 of the open source definition. https://opensource.org/osd/


Yep. It's getting really exhausting seeing projects falsely advertising themselves as "open source". Either be FOSS or don't be; don't pretend to be while using some nonsense like the BSL or whatever adhocery is in play here.


In the README they even call it "Modified MIT", the modification being where they turned it from a very permissive license into a fully proprietary one. Very cool model though.


Well, the Apache Software Foundation were rightly getting annoyed at 'modified Apache' licences...


I bet it's a new benchmark for the labs to get funding




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