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I'm going to vote you up, because at least your points make sense.

The key problem with your argument unfortunately is this part.

>> they don't call it "free software", they call it "open source"

The problem with this is that "Open Source" is already a phrase with meaning. Trying to co-opt that term for marketing reasons is disingenuous.

I happen to think that a source-available license is better than a closed source license. I ship my own code that way. However what I create is not Open Source, and I don't market it as such.

Liquibase is using a known term to market their product, when their license is not compatible with that term.

Their license is absolutely fine. Trying to pass ot off as OSS is not.



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