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Is it a Paradox of Tolerance type reasoning that capital O Open Source people suddenly are not at all about freedom when someone is releasing code under a new, non OSI license (elastic, this)?

Or is it honestly all about the term Open Source? That one feels like a lost cause but ok.

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As someone who as expressed concerns about the Hippocratic license in the past, it is 100% about the term Open Source.

As noted in my earlier comment, this new organisation may(?) be signalling a change where the term "Ethical Source" is used - I think that is a much better name for these sorts of licenses.

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