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I felt the exact same thing. I was pretty sure the answer was "No" but they were too chicken to write it.

Were they hoping that people wouldn't notice?




It worked for Docker Desktop and BSC.

The products even have github repos! There's just no source in them.

It's open source cosplay.


> It's open source cosplay.

I am stilling that phrase. It's perfect.


You'd think they could have just left that question out of their FAQ and licensed it with a "free-as-in-beer" click-through license.


Probably. They were hoping that the less-informed (like me) would see "The Datomic binaries are being released under the Apache 2.0 license" and think "Datomic is relicensed under Apache 2.0".




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