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Re:Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Int... by VLM on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:17AM (#14957481)
Seems to be the latter, fairly typical "its GPL unless you want to pay us for a different license"

https://github.com/mongoose-os-libs/mqtt/blob/master/LICENSE

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Re:Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Int... by snakeanus on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:26PM (#14959463)
It seems that it lacks the "or (at your option) any later version" part. Which is quite sad.
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Re:Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Int... by ivanbakel on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:36PM (#14960267)
And an odd choice, even if your target market is tyrant devices. Why not encourage corporations to pay for the non-free license by restricting the uses of the free version?
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