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+# An annoying nomenclature problem
+
+Even though we seem to think that the Business Source License should be
+called BUSL, most of its end-users seem to refer to it as BSL!  It
+may be awkward if we end up having a ton of citations where we say
+things like "the project FooWare announced it was using BUSL in 2022
+(see 'Announcing FooCorp's Switch to BSL')".
+
 # Examples
 
 Note that some of these examples are still just pointers that will