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13 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2023-10-24 · latest 2026-05-15

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  1. …on the FSL with AGPL as the change license if you rename it so that it isn't confusingly similar. https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/issues/53#issuecom...
    comment by maxloh · 2026-05-15 · in Nordstjernen Web Browser
  2. The not-quite-Apache-2 "Fair Source License, Version 1.1, ALv2 Future License" ( https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/blob/main/FSL-1.1-... ) includes the Apache 2 patent grant. That grants you conditional permission to use the…
    comment by striking · 2026-05-12 · in Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable
  3. …for two years after officially licensing the software. You can read the FSL license text here: https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/blob/main/FSL-1.1-... Sounds like a reasonable tradeoff to ensure companies don't have immediate…
    comment by 9dev · 2025-07-08 · in Epanet-JS
  4. …a minefiled for use in a commercial settings: the definition of "Competing Use" in the license ( https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/blob/main/FSL-1.1-... ) can be read very broadly.
    comment by snotrockets · 2024-08-08 · in GitButler is now fair source
  5. …Source will ultimately entail (Fair Source and Fair Code will be merged eventually AFAICT). [0]: https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/issues/4 [1]: https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/issues/2
    comment by ezekg · 2024-05-13 · in Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code?
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    Provide examples of where FSL should and should not be considered
    story by videlov · 2024-02-08 · 0 comments
  7. …it seems that most of the collaborators are not lawyers. Has the license been lawyer-reviewed? [0]: https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/issues/4
    comment by maxloh · 2023-11-21 · in The BUSL Factor
  8. …means we're destroying OSS, there is probably little I can do to disavow you of that notion. [1] https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software
    comment by bentlegen · 2023-11-19 · in FSL: A License for the Bazaar, Not the Cathedral
  9. …any other OSS fork, you can't relicense. It's obvious people don't actually read the license. [0]: https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/blob/main/FSL-1.0-...
    comment by ezekg · 2023-11-18 · in Sentry Relicense Again (FSL)
  10. …I personally like it, although I won't be moving from ELv2 to FSL due to another reason [0]. [0]: https://github.com/getsentry/loose-confederation/issues/4#is...
    comment by ezekg · 2023-11-17 · in Sentry Relicense Again (FSL)
  11. …include the "2 year" rollover, since that's one of their pearl-clutching reasons for this bullshit: https://github.com/getsentry/loose-confederation/issues/4
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-11-17 · in Sentry Relicense Again (FSL)
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    Write a License
    story by Keats · 2023-11-16 · 0 comments
  13. Cross-posted at https://github.com/getsentry/loose-confederation/issues/4#is... . ;-) One of our goals is to keep the parameters to an absolute minimum, to aid in adoption. The simpler we can keep it the more easily it will get picked up,…
    comment by whit537 · 2023-10-24 · in We Just Gave $500k to Open Source Maintainers