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No, there are not. Disallowing commercial use is a field-of-use restriction and thus violates the Open Source Definition. https://opensource.org/osd#fields-of
by rectang 6y ago
No, there are not. Disallowing commercial use is a field-of-use restriction and thus violates the Open Source Definition.
https://opensource.org/osd#fields-of-endeavor https://opensource.org/osd#fields-of-endeavor
> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
The GPL and AGPL require reciprocity but do not disallow commercial forks. Other licenses out there may disallow commerical forks, but they are not Open Source licenses.