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Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

we’re carving a space for companies to safely share

To be fair, it's no safer than being GPL etc. in that any license is only as useful as your ability to enforce it in court. For a bad actor, whether they violate a fair source license vs a GPL likely isn't much of a concern at all.