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Re:Norwegian backup provider promises NSA-free data storage ... by arethuza on Monday June 17, 2013 @08:21AM (#5892718)
My reading of that is that you aren't allowed to redistribute any modifications or use it for anything other than accessing the tarsnap service.

So not really open source software in any sense that I understand.

[NB My comments is not intended as a criticism of tarsnap or Colin's licensing policy - he wrote it so, in my book, he can license it any way he wants.]

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Re:Norwegian backup provider promises NSA-free data storage ... by sigil on Monday June 17, 2013 @10:12AM (#5893223)
> Redistribution and use...without modification, is permitted for the sole purpose of using the "tarsnap" service.

(emphasis mine) This sounds like there are no restrictions on distributing modified source / binaries.

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Re:Norwegian backup provider promises NSA-free data storage ... by cperciva on Monday June 17, 2013 @04:55PM (#5895889)
Quite the opposite: No permission is given to distribute modified versions, so you're not allowed to do it.
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Re:Norwegian backup provider promises NSA-free data storage ... by bnr on Monday June 17, 2013 @09:58AM (#5893128)
It's open source, allright. Free Software is the term you are looking for.
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Re:Norwegian backup provider promises NSA-free data storage ... by throwaway2048 on Monday June 17, 2013 @01:21PM (#5894471)
Free to distribute is one of the fundamental defining things about open source [1]. Lets not water it down to the point of meaninglessness like words like `open' currently are.

[1]http://opensource.org/osd

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