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> I'm willing to grant to the user every right offered by free software licenses with the exception of rights to commercial use. From the FSF's point of view -
by bigiain 8y ago
> I'm willing to grant to the user every right offered by free software licenses with the exception of rights to commercial use.
From the FSF's point of view - that's fine, but it's no longer "free software". Which I agree with.
They're somewhat grumpy, I think understandably, that companies like RedisLabs and MongoDB take the name and all of the text of a free license - and then make it non-free while keeping most of the brand recognition of the free license. As you suspect, it's misleading to end users.
I think the Creative Commons people did some good work on this front, having the concept of things like "non-commercial" and "No derivatives" as explicit modifiers added to tne name/title of a license, to make it very clear up fromnt. wonder if the FSF would be happier if, for example, RedisLabs had chosen to use something like "Apache2 non commercial" instead of the less self explanatory "Apache 2.0 modified with Commons Clause" ???