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The type of Amazon Software License #261

Closed extend1994 closed 7 years ago

extend1994 commented 7 years ago

Hi! I am a member of cdnjs. There is one lib request cdnjs/cdnjs#9725. To add the lib correctly, could you please tell me that whether Amazon Software License is a kind of open source license or give me some suggestion about it?

Thank you :)

hyandell commented 7 years ago

Hi LboAnn,

I'm not sure what you're looking for.

The Amazon Software License is derived from the Microsoft Limited Public License + Apache License 2.0. It's neither approved by, nor submitted to, the Open Source Initiative.

PeterDaveHello commented 7 years ago

@hyandell so would you call it an open source license?

PeterDaveHello commented 7 years ago

Hello @hyandell ?

hyandell commented 7 years ago

Sorry for missing this.

I wouldn't call it Open Source - I don't believe the Microsoft Limited Public License that this shares terms with has been reviewed by the OSI and neither has this license.

tdmalone commented 6 years ago

For others coming across this, just to clarify, the ASL is not open source.

From the Open Source Definition:

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

From the Amazon Software License:

The Work and any derivative works thereof only may be used or intended for use with the web services, computing platforms or applications provided by Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, including Amazon Web Services, Inc.

In general it appears the ASL is quite permissive, but you can't take an ASL licensed product and use it on Google Cloud, for instance. Nor can you in the future, so if you put a lot of effort into building on an ASL licensed product, you might be locking yourself into only using it on AWS.

But, IANAL ;)