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Jun 1, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Okay, a little 'source available' rant follows. As you know, I work with OSS quite a bit at Google and throughout my career since 1995 or so before we even called it that. There's nothing wrong at all with evolution of open source licenses, nor is there anything wrong with ....
..Proprietary software. Source code available licenses like the SSPL et al are not 'evil' or 'wrong' but they're not open source. That's okay! I don't think open source should expand to include licenses with field of use restrictions/limits like those in the SA Licenses... but...