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Please read the license terms carefully.

New Products

If you are using the software to provide a product that does not compete, but the licensor or any of its affiliates brings your product into competition by providing a new version of the software or another product using the software, you may continue using versions of the software available under these terms beforehand to provide your competing product, but not any later versions.

Discontinued Products

You may begin using the software to compete with a product or service that the licensor or any of its affiliates has stopped providing, unless the licensor includes a plain-text line beginning with Licensor Line of Business: with the software that mentions that line of business. For example:

Licensor Line of Business: YoyodyneCMS Content Management System (http://example.com/cms)


If I use the software, then the creator expands their business to compete with me, I can never update the software again.

Maybe this is software meant to work over the network and a security vulnerability is discovered. The license says I am stuck running a version with vulnerabilities until I can figure out how to use a different project. That's a deal-breaker.




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