A project I contributed a small amount to, recently added a license: #CommonsCause and I thought no much of it, until they started claiming that this license is “open source”
I created a pull request to replace it with “source available” but was rejected
https://github.com/mormaer/Mlem/pull/240
(Dead link)
A warning to anyone who is interested contributing that this is not GPLv3 software it’s CommonsClaused 🔒
Because the #GPL #License text is added to the top and the #CommonsClause is added afterwards #github considers the project #GPLv3 software.
I’m amazed GitHub doesn’t have better licensing monitoring tools. This makes automated license tracking pretty iffy in my book.
@lil5 I further queried some of their thoughts in https://github.com/mormaer/Mlem/pull/173, in hopes to make them understand this is not open source, otherwise some folks can be stubborn to want to give themselves competitive advantage while using "open source" for marketing.
I've also added this as a case to track for https://github.com/ssddanbrown/Open-Source-Confusion-Cases.
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@danb Thanks for linking to the other pull request, and for adding the project to that list I’ll be checking that list before contributing from now on.
I was one of the contributors to approve the license PR in the first place not knowing they’d call it open source or make GitHub think it’s licensed under the GPL.
This whole thing feels disingenuous at this point.
lil5 
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Dan Brown