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Creative Commons like this project uses?

The FSF and OSI are both clear about what liberties a licence must give to people for it to be called open source / free software, and "must allow commercial reuse" is one of them.

Software that includes a non commercial clause doesn't get built upon much and so clauses like that don't get much traction.



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