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Old 04-23-2016, 12:21 PM   #34
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I understand it to mean that the application is open source software and you can use it like open source software. The fact that it's usefulness is limited without the keys is irrelevant to its open sourceness.
Most open source licenses don't place any restriction on the type of use. Based on the article mentioning the need for a license to use my guess would be this is dual licensed - a read-only-look-at-the-source license and a license-for-use license. I think that first license is what they're referring to as "open source with caveats".
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