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Re:An update to the Timescale license by thayne on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:17AM (#24587051)
"Source Available" encompasses a wide gamut of licenses. I think it is fair to say that the new TLS license is closer in spirit to "open source" than the old one, or say Gitlab's enterprise license.
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Re:An update to the Timescale license by dragonwriter on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:01PM (#24591208)
No, it's not. It's entire purpose is protecting the copyright owners ability it extract rents against others who might offer competing services, which is exactly the spirit of traditional proprietary licensing, and exactly opposed to the value proposition of Free/Open Source Software.

The terms might be superficially similar to some F/OSS licenses, but the reason it fails to meet the OSI or FSF definitions is precisely that it's spirit is diametrically opposed to F/OSS

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