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Open source vs source-available: the licensing trap catching dev teams

Original: "It's on GitHub, so it's open source" is one of the most expensive assumptions a team can make.... # opensource # selfho

A widely shared warning in developer circles argues that assuming any project hosted on GitHub is truly open source is one of the most expensive mistakes a team can make. The post highlights the distinction between open source and merely source-available code, and points to three common license traps that can derail self-hosted deployments and devops pipelines when legal terms are ignored.

Why now: Licensing confusion around source-available software is causing real legal and cost problems for teams.

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