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Those bastards. How dare they publish their source code on terms we don't agree with.


The post you are replying to and its parent are not disagreeing with the terms the source code was published under.

Go read them again and find where they disagree with the terms.

They do disagree with the way those terms are _described_. "Open source" has a fairly well defined meaning and that meaning excludes a license that restricts use based on "field of endeavour", which the license in question does.

This is also completely different from the GPL. The GPL does not restrict commercial use. I can use the GPLed linux kernel to serve up commercial websites all day. Presumably I could not use Z3 to serve a commercial service.




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