Brian Bartholomew writes:
> > I am sure that the OSI board would reject use licensing, because it
> > recently did just that.
>
> Why was it rejected? Because charging for use is not what OSS is
> about?
It was Larry McVoy's proposed BitKeeper license. The license included
a requirement to run a regression test, required notification of use,
and prohibited modifications. It wasn't a use license per se, but it
amounted to one.
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