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@fontana Even if FaiF, it introduces a silly complexity that's at the very least #problematic, as is calling it "BSD-style"
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Heard of HTSQL via pycon, says it has "BSD style license" but that's misleading… limitation to certain databases makes it ultimately nonfree
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http://htsql.org/license.txt or at least, I'm pretty damned sure this is nonfree? Regardless, #communitylicensefail
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Heh, license says "your db must use OSI-approved license" & site says ~"Although this licensing strategy does not conform with OSI criteria"
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@cwebber fork, patch with extensions to free dbs, merge?
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@nuclearsandwich Has free db support, & its "community license" is limited to free dbs, in a way that ironically makes it nonfree (I think)
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@cwebber I saw that, and would tend to agree. That isn't a viable open source profit model since the code isn't open source just public.
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@fontana Ha, how curious. Tho license means might fail to work w/ other databases which have a similarly free but OSI-incompliant license ;)
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@fontana but what about freedom 0?
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@fontana any supporting evidence for this apparent contradiction with “run the software for *any* purpose”?
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@fontana Although iirc @bkuhn (and the FSF?) say that the term "BSD-style" is itself #problematic, but this more than most
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