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This name is really confusing. If they called it "Shareware 90 plus other restrictions" it would at least convey a bit about what the idea of the license is trying to do.

Using "License Zero" is a really marketing oriented approach.



My marketing plan at this point is stickers.

"License Zero" because it aims for zero marginal friction over use of permissive open source software. That's entirely attainable with good metadata, a good CLI, and a speed checkout process.


It’s misleading because it pretends that you need zero licences for it.




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