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Interesting phrasing under the license section: >Texture is open source, and you are legally free to use it commercially. If you are using Texture to make prof
by dtparr 10y ago
Interesting phrasing under the license section:
>Texture is open source, and you are legally free to use it commercially. If you are using Texture to make profit, we expect that you help fund its development and maintenance.
My first read through, I thought it was making a free as in beer/speech distinction for commercial use, but looking at the actual license on github, that doesn't appear to be the case. I think the second sentence is perhaps more often worded as 'ask' or 'hope' vs. 'expect' which I initially took as more of a contractual expectation (i.e. a requirement).
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoRe your last para I think "expect" is the better choice. "If you use our stuff to do your day job then we expect you to help with our finances" - they're not forcing you to but they are applying social pressure. "Expect" isn't a contract-like term IMO as it's too vague. If you were demanding it then they'd offer a difference license; this is not [as it's written] instantiating a contractual obligation, it's calling on the users moral nature.
- frik 10y agohttps://github.com/substance/texture/blob/develop/LICENSE.md https://github.com/substance/texture/blob/develop/LICENSE.md I wonder why they don't use a variant of the BSD/MIT or GPL?
- rwmj 10y agoThis is the MIT license (compare: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)