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A comment on Ask HN: "Free if you know how to compile it" open source license?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: "Free if you know how to compile it" open source ... by sam0x17 on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:44AM (#28639011)
I think it could meet the OSD definition... if it's identical to MIT except you have to build the project to become licensed, I don't see how that violates any of the OSD requirements.
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Re:Ask HN: "Free if you know how to compile it" open source ... by caslon on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:10AM (#28640150)
People would have the right to download a binary from someone else who'd already compiled it. You're thinking of just having the binaries under a separate license, which isn't unheard of, but it also means that someone's just going to compile it and release it for free.
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Re:Ask HN: "Free if you know how to compile it" open source ... by sam0x17 on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:14PM (#28644412)
Exactly, and I'd be fine with that.
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