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Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source

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Advisory: I am not a legal expert and there could likely be inaccuracies in this post. Today Gumroad announced that they’ve become open source, with this being echoed by the founder and on social sites like Hacker News:

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