Can some one explain to me what the idea behind "commercial open source" is?

@dos I just saw a few new projects (e.g. a PinePhone distribution) using that term and was curious.

@linmob I think that term may mean several things. There are commercial projects released on free licenses (wink wink); there are some licenses made with commercial interests in mind that pretend to be "open source" but in fact don't match the definition; and there are projects that sell their builds of fully FLOSS software as a way to finance the development (so you can build for free on your own, but people buy it for convenience and support).

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