Do we really need another non-open source available license?

Posted by bob on Nov 25, 2023 7:48 AM EDT
The Register; By Steven Vaughan-Nichols
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No, but here comes the Functional Source License to further muddy the open-source licensing waters. Opinion Way back when we loaded software with punch cards and magnetic tape, all programs were "free software" and "open source." Then along came proprietary software, and everything changed. But programmers rebelled and developed the first formal definitions of free and open source software.…

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