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ssddanbrown / Open-Source-Confusion-Cases

A list of cases where open source licenses are misrepresented or where "Open Source" is used in a non-open-source-definition adhering manner.
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Caprover #47

Open ssddanbrown opened 1 month ago

ssddanbrown commented 1 month ago

Licensed as Apache2.0 but with additional terms: https://github.com/caprover/caprover/blob/a563cd0dd593a7995b51e05fd64debed756677f6/LICENSE Additional terms limit modification in an awkward way, distribution & use.

These issues have already been propagated by others copying, as per:

Edit: Can't see Caprover advertising as open source anywhere currently (although they were and may have been in the past). So may not be relevant as a case although this is still against the Apache terms of their license, and is a source of further confusion. Nevermind: calls itself open source in its terms

ssddanbrown commented 1 month ago

Some prior conversations on this, although without detail in regard to the specific terms added:

ssddanbrown commented 1 month ago

Discussion raised: https://github.com/caprover/caprover/discussions/2075