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Re:License Changes for Confluent Platform by nine_k on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:55AM (#18682264)
Why, the source is open. You can use it to look for bugs, to make your own optimized / customized / verified build, etc.

The change applies to making the running code available in certain ways, not to access to the source.

I wonder how "free as in freedom" such software is, though. OTOH AGPL is considered "free software" by GNU, so this likely is, too.

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Re:License Changes for Confluent Platform by mindcrime on Friday December 14, 2018 @12:08PM (#18682403)
"Open Source" has a very specific meaning[1], that goes beyond the mere availability of the source code. And these terms violate article 6 of the OSD, meaning that code licensed this way is not Open Source.

And yes, yes, I know the old saw that "The OSI doesn't have a trademark on Open Source". That's irrelevant. In practical terms, the de-facto definition of "Open Source" is the OSD.

[1]: https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

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