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Originally Posted by latepaul
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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Does it say the license is required to use the software, or just to get the key? If it is to use the software then it's some mutant form of open source, because the Open Source Initiative specifically says that, "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code." Although weak when compared to Free Software, open source does give users some freedom. On the other hand, open source has been watered down over time. It doesn't have the resistance to corruption that Free Software has.