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License Notes

The Commons Clause license, no matter what it is applied to, is a proprietary license. Nothing is permitted into Fedora under this license, and the Fedora community STRONGLY discourages anyone from using it.

For more discussion of why this license is so toxic, see:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/aug/22/commons-clause/ https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/22/Commons-clause-will-destroy-open-source.html https://lwn.net/Articles/763179/