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I like that they open sourced the code, although I think the license is a little restrictive.

I try to run all my companies as FOSS companies, as I believe that it's practically impossible to create a competitor just by forking the code. Much of the work in any code base comes not from the programmer, but from the community that interacts with the system as a whole. Even if a part of the community forks there will be different needs and requirements in the different communities which will mean they diverge as they address different niches.



The non-commercial clause indeed violates the Open Source Definition. They are NOT Open Source.




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