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Indeed, it's "source available" at best, not open source as it limits how other parties can use the software, even if the creators don't like their use.



Just to be clear, the only limitation imposed by the license is preventing someone from reselling a cloud hosted copy of the tool. The code is otherwise totally free to use fork / modify / etc...


That's great, it's not open source though so you shouldn't call it open source. Call it something else.




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