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Re:Changing the Ungit license from MIT to Faircode by jordigh on Sunday November 05, 2017 @01:15PM (#15630721)
This isn't open source: it discriminates against field of endeavours (point 6):

https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

Restricting commercial use isn't anything new or a bold new experiment or anything. It's the same lesson we apparently need to relearn from the 1980s.

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Re:Changing the Ungit license from MIT to Faircode by quotemstr on Sunday November 05, 2017 @04:38PM (#15631777)
I've been telling people for ages now that the slow erosion of copyleft mindshare in favor of permissive licensing is going to bring about a return of the bad old days of proprietary software licensing. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but this move doesn't bode well.
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