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		bostonvaulter2 on April 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGP... > I did not mean to say that open-source software (broadly, MIT-licensed) and free software (broadly, GPL-licensed) Sorry, but free software IS open-source software. I take issue with how you're presenting these. Perhaps a better term would be liberally licensed software, as opposed to copyleft.

nine_k on April 20, 2021 [–]

Agreed; one is a subset of the other. I tried to say something like "open-source in general, and its more strictly licensed copyleft subset,..".

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