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Comment by jamiejquinn

5 hours ago

A license like GPL is very restrictive, but I wouldn't call it source available. Maybe I'm missing your point?

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loire280  2 hours ago

A well known example is Gitlab Enterprise - you can see the source code but (IANAL) you can't use it without paying them and any modifications you make become the property of Gitlab. I remember seeing similar terms around some of the proprietary Confluent Platform components.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/ee/LICENS...

  • jamiejquinn  2 hours ago

    Wow, that is very restrictive.

    • loire280  1 hour ago

      It's better than nothing when you are troubleshooting and suspect it's their bug. I hope the rampant illegal AI scraping doesn't force companies to end the practice and go completely closed-source.