• T0RB1T@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I noticed them talking about one of their softwares being licensed under FSL, not having heard of it, I looked it up and…

    • TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I’m not very educated on the Fair Source stuff but the idea is that you create source available software which will after some time become Open Source. So I guess their idea is that if you use AGPL, people cannot do that. AGPL means nobody else can make Fair Source software from your work. AGPL is a good license, it just does not work with their

      [new software] -> [source available] -> [FOSS after a while] -> [new software made from the now FOSS software]
      

      loop.