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		afiori on Aug 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HashiCorp adopts Business Source License > This is 100% in the spirit of open source That is the spirit of Free Software (ie restricting users as little as possible) Open Source is much smaller in scope.

riffraff on Aug 11, 2023 [–]

The open source definition explicitly says that there must be no restrictions on reselling.

So restricting competitors is as much against the OS spirit as it is against the FS spirit.

afiori on Aug 11, 2023 | [–]

touché

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