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The "correct term" for things like BSL is whatever they want to call it, as long as no trademarks are being infringed.


They could call it a banana but then everyone would be expecting a curved yellow thing.

Words and phrases have shared meanings, BSL doesn't conform to the meaning we've attached to open source.




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