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

submitted 11 months ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yup. Just another greedy company trying to instill the warm and fuzzies in prospective customers and benefit from unpaid members of the public fixing their bugs with the "open source" branding.