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> which will prohibit them from being used freely by hosting and cloud providers and other software makers that profit directly from them All the pro-"Common C
by mintplant 8y ago
> which will prohibit them from being used freely by hosting and cloud providers and other software makers that profit directly from them
All the pro-"Common Clause" reporting I've seen has focused exclusively on cloud providers, omitting the prohibition on even "consulting/ support services related to the Software". This reaches further than most license agreements for fully-proprietary software, to the point where I'm stunned that it's even legal.
Thought experiment: is a paid employee of a company working with one of these Redis modules considered to be providing support "for a fee or other consideration"---and thus in violation of its license? Is it illegal now to teach a class on how to use RediSearch?
- driverdan 8y agoThis is my problem as well. Freelancers and consultants would be unable to teach, install, configure, or manage anything licensed under Common Clause. It's a terrible license.
- cpuguy83 8y agoI suspect in this case that it's expected that you establish a partnership agreement with the company.
- PeterisP 8y agoMaybe, but that's still a very harsh restriction - in that regard pretty much every commercial product of random anti-open-source company is more free, their licences almost never require something remotely comparable to that.