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Though because that license says "for any reasonable purpose" it's something that's vague when it comes to "is this FOSS" as it's vaguely Crockford-like ("this software shall be used for Good, not for Evil").

The [OSI requires](https://opensource.org/osd/):

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor > The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

[GNU/FSF](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) have as "Freedom 0":

> The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose




It's just a homemade licence, IMO don't need to be pedantic about it.

If you think you are being reasonable, use it, if you think you are not, don't :)


Legally, "reasonsable" just means "for a reason" (that someone can describe). Ianal but, one told me this long ago.




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