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submitted 11 months ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Sentry has moved to a new license for its products called Functional Source License, and explains in this article the story of the licensing for these products and why they throw BSL for FSL.

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[-] true_blue@lemmy.comfysnug.space 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

free-riding

If you're gonna have that kind of attitude, then you don't really care about user freedom.

[-] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yup. Just another greedy company trying to instill the warm and fuzzies in prospective customers and benefit from unpaid members of the public fixing their bugs with the "open source" branding.

[-] satan@r.nf 1 points 11 months ago

Good. Users aren't the ones spending countless hours coding, debugging, and testing their apps. And they shouldn't give a shit about internet keyboard warriors and their ideals.

don't like it? write your own code.

this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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