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Mlem is licensed under the Commons Clause, which prohibits commercial use, even though the project advertises itself as "open source".

The maintainers have refused to accept PRs that change the wording to "source-available", edited comments and locked threads about the topic:

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[–] afoutopatisa 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't have a problem with this, but would be interested to hear why this choice was made. Going strictly by Stallmanism / FOSS purists, CC is considered "non-free" (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#comclause).

[–] Zeth0s 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It anyway doesn't claim license is not "open source", just not free. That is very different. Source is open, cannot be freely utilized

[–] afoutopatisa 1 points 1 year ago

That is correct. I'm OK with them using "open source" as it's valid.