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Commit 06a909bf authored by Seth Schoen's avatar Seth Schoen
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Move nomenclature gripe down so it's not the first thing people see!

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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
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by Ben Boyter mentions "searchcode" server being under an
"eventually open" license.
# 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')".
# Taxonomy
I (Seth) think there's a distinction to be made between these three cases:
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