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The project is licensed under a Business Source License [1] which wouldn't be widely considered open source due to the limitations it's placing on use, so adver
by ssddanbrown 2y ago
The project is licensed under a Business Source License [1] which wouldn't be widely considered open source due to the limitations it's placing on use, so advertising this as open source may be misleading to many. Source available is a more common term for these kinds of license.
If you're interested in why I think this distinction matters, I've written some thoughts about that on my blog [2].
[1] https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/ https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/
991bdc7e0c9830c89a81b07b0ebabca9b506677a/LICENSE
[2] https://danb.me/blog/open-source-available-distinction/ https://danb.me/blog/open-source-available-distinction/
- wenfengwang 2y agoThanks ssddanbrown! We only published our server-side code under the BSL 1.1, and granting users using NPi in production[1]. Other parties under the Apache 2.0 License. you could check them out, SDK[2], Protocol[3]: [1] https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/991bdc7e0c9830c89a81b07b0ebabca9b506677a/LICENSE#L10 https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/991bdc7e0c9830c89a81b07b0... [2] https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/991bdc7e0c9830c89a81b07b0ebabca9b506677a/sdk/python/LICENSE https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/991bdc7e0c9830c89a81b07b0... [3] https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/main/proto/LICENSE https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/main/proto/LICENSE