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> Can we create a license which allows source distribution and collaboration openly and is free to use for individuals and non-profits but companies have to pay
by senko 10y ago
> Can we create a license which allows source distribution and collaboration openly and is free to use for individuals and non-profits but companies have to pay if they use it for commercial purpose.
These kinds of licenses have existed for a long time. They're not open source, though.
- neokya 10y agoCould you post some references I could read? I am quite interested why they didn't work. As far as I see, popular licenses are: 1. Commercial source 2. Open source - copy left eg. GPL 3. Open source - liberal, do whatever you like eg. MIT which are just handful, when software is eating the world ;)
- zzalpha 10y agogSOAP has a separate commercial use license. They use a mix of GPLv2 plus a separate license for companies that want to avoid having to relicense their own products under the GPL (as a consequence of the viral nature of GPL vs something like LGPL).
- molecule 10y agoHighcharts.js has a free-for-noncommercial, paid-otherwise license system https://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts https://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts (Not affiliated, but using highcharts for a project @ a non-profit)
- senko 10y agoQT famously had a dual, "non-commercial" and "commercial" licenses, before they switched to LGPL. From wikipedia / web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20031005175911/http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/noncomm.html https://web.archive.org/web/20031005175911/http://www.trollt...