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Re:Re-Licensing Sentry by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @06:12PM (#21468608)
> a REAL open source community

No true scotsman. If it works for the stakeholders, it works, regardless of what you want to call the model, whether that's GNU/Linux, Redis, Elastic, or Sentry.

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Re:Re-Licensing Sentry by yabadabadoes on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @06:21PM (#21468677)
That's silly, I've worked in a closed source community with cross company stakeholders and we had no trouble understanding we weren't open source Scotsmen. Sentry seems to know this too, and this unnotable change is strangely notable here.

GPL exists partly to prevent this kind of conversion once the community is diverse and non-profit project hosting is a good place to look for a community. It would be nice if everyone knew that and kept it in mind, but clearly they do not.

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