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Can you post links to those licenses?

Typically the licenses which don't qualify are non-commercial licenses or have rules about who can and can't use the software under those licenses, which makes them non-free/non-open source.



Sure. What you said is exactly what the poll is meant to answer.

- https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html

- https://spdx.org/licenses/SSPL-1.0.html

- https://spdx.org/licenses/Elastic-2.0

These are not OSI-approved, but some may argue could be considered 'effectively open source' for most use cases.




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