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I’d say that open source definitely lost, and lost real bad.

Free Software won, as you ended up adopting the AGPL.

It’s an important distinction.




No its not.


One more major piece of software is not open source (BSD) anymore, it's now Free Software (AGPL).

And every time someone talks about Open Source licensing, we'll remember how Redis was BSD and that became a shitshow so bad (everybody was fleeing to Valkey) they had to relicense it to AGPL (Free Software).

If this isn't losing...




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