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Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding (blog.sentry.io)

submitted 1 year ago by pylapp to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

free-riding

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.