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Mattermost say they will not clarify what license the project is under

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Mattermost say they will not clarify what license the project is under

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Opensource@programming.devEnglish · 15 hours ago

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LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant. · Issue #8886 · mattermost/mattermost

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/blob/master/LICENSE.txt#L9 "May be licensed"?? Under what conditions? This is not compliant with open source definition.

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Mattermost is indeed, a dick. They try to leech off of contributors like many of corporate focused open source products do.

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