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		sofixa on Jan 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Should I open source my company? (2022) In practice are there any BSL adopters that don't give a usage grant for production use? All those I've encountered only forbid stuff like hosting to compete with the original software creator, not actually using it in production.

sea-gold on Jan 22, 2024 [–]

It may not be common, but I did find these (fairly popular projects) which don't appear to allow production usage: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs/blob/master/L... https://github.com/exaloop/codon/blob/develop/LICENSE

Here are some others: https://github.com/search?q=%22Business+Source+License%22+%2...

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