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I lead a project to develop a strong-copyleft license that makes development tools "free for open source": https://paritylicense.com https://paritylicense.com
by kemitchell 7y ago
I lead a project to develop a strong-copyleft license that makes development tools "free for open source":
https://paritylicense.com https://paritylicense.com
The idea was that developers like you could make your tools available under Parity and charge folks who want to use their code to develop closed, rather than open, software. However, several projects and companies have also used the license simply to make sure their work stays open, without selling any permission to build closed projects.
- seanwilson 7y agoI like the idea. How would it stop someone releasing a free version of a paid development tool though? It relies on people downloading the free tool to be honest enough not to use it on commercial projects?
- kemitchell 7y agoNo license can guarantee compliance with its own rules. That's true of all copyleft licenses, including GPL, EPL, and MPL. Whether and how to enforce the license is up to the developer.
- seanwilson 7y agoSo for tools like https://www.checkbot.io/ https://www.checkbot.io/ specifically, where the tool gives you a list of problems to go and fix, it would be easy to use the tool on a commercial project and conceal that you did so. I can see a license like yours working for a library you had to integrate though as I can't imagine any serious company would risk integrating a library in a way that violates the license.