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Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we’re carving a space for companies to safely share

To be fair, it's no safer than being GPL etc. in that any license is only as useful as your ability to enforce it in court. For a bad actor, whether they violate a fair source license vs a GPL likely isn't much of a concern at all.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I doubt they're as worried about people covertly stealing their licenses code as they are about amazonish tactics where a competitor forks the codebase and takes a significant fraction of the users with them, or even just reuses the existing code to host a service, which means they don't have to ship their modifications back upstream.

I'm not defending the decision, that's just my experience with how this is usually justified.