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I 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 hones
by seanwilson 7y ago
I 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.