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Restricting the use would mean that it's not classified as open-source as per [1] "6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor", right? Would that also mea
by leethargo 6y ago
Restricting the use would mean that it's not classified as open-source as per [1] "6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor", right?
Would that also mean that software released with such restrictions would likely be incompatible with most existing OSS licenses, making it impractical to build on top of existing code?
[1] https://opensource.org/docs/osd https://opensource.org/docs/osd
- josephcsible 6y agoYes to both, and doing so also makes it non-free per the FSF. Here's what they say about the Anti-996 license [1], as well as about this concept in general [2]. Caveat to the second point: while it is indeed incompatible with copyleft licenses like the GPL, pushover licenses like the MIT license unfortunately are compatible with it, so there probably will be some degree of proliferation of that sort of thing. [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#Anti-996 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#Anti-996 [2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...