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I kinda think "open" is a word that's immediately undermined by any qualification.

I'm really down for more variety with licenses like this one, but "open source" has become really unhelpful because it's used for:

- Open source for half the code, and the other half is proprietary

- Open source as long as you aren't a company

- Open source as long as you aren't a company competing with us

It's helpful to have a term for "free to do whatever you want with", but we don't really have on that doesn't get misused elsewhere right now.



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