FSL and BSL belong on any list of false-promise licenses:

• https://fsl.software/
• https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/#whatis

They are not open source. They are restrictive source-available licenses dressed up with “open” language.

Reading the code is not enough. If users cannot freely run, use, or build on the software because of field-of-use or competition restrictions, the software is not open source.

Marketing it as “open source” or even putting “open” in your name is misleading twice: first in the license, then in the messaging.

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