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What? It's free software, but one does not have a license to use it?

What kind of free software is that?

(And no, I didn't read the license, I don't know either way.)




It is freely licensed for personal, OSS and small teams. You do not get the free license grant for other uses. It's like using GPL code in closed source software. GPL is free but has conditions about that free license that gets granted to you.

> I didn't read the license

Oh boy... Keep that up and you're going to have interesting times ahead of you. Always read licenses, or at the very least (if you can't be asked to deal with legalese) find a summary somewhere.


I don't use this software. I have no reason to read the license.


With such a snide retort, why ask for the facts in the first place?




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