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Re:Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud by 38 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:08PM (#37156302)
using "free and open" is going to evoke the idea of FOSS. so you either:

1. did that intentionally, intending to trick people into thinking UbiCloud is FOSS

2. did it unintentionally, somehow missing the obvious connection that people are going to make

either way, its a bad look. this is a solved problem, you can use the correct term for the situation:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software

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Re:Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud by zxwrt on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:13PM (#37156340)
Agree. Using "free and open" is still rather deceptive.
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Re:Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud by veave on Thursday August 17, 2023 @06:19AM (#37159544)
It doesn't even need to evoke the idea of FOSS. Software that includes licence management with keys and such should not be called "free and open"
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Re:Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud by furkansahin on Friday August 18, 2023 @10:41AM (#37176321)
elastic, who is the creator of the licence in the first place, refers to it as Free and Open. https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing#
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