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Are these designed to be mixed and matched? Like, Polyform-free trial + Polyform-small business?
by auggierose 6y ago
Are these designed to be mixed and matched? Like, Polyform-free trial + Polyform-small business?
- OJFord 6y agoI think so, it describes it as 'a menu, like Creative Commons' - and on the adopters page 'AppsCode' is described as using 'Non Commercial and Free Trial' (which are two of the licences listed). But I'm not sure if that means like usual 'dual licensing' (pick your licence) or a conjunction of their terms, so that any pair is more restrictive than its parts.
- auggierose 6y agoI saw the AppsCode example too. I guess you can just dual or triple or ... license it. So I guess it is neither union nor intersection of licenses, but variants of licenses.
- justsomeuser 6y agoI want this too. E.g. Small business + no permission to distribute/change the code. I think it would be good to have a list of checkboxes to make your own custom license (e.g. your own definition of small business).
- mqus 6y agoDrone.io does exactly this, although in an OR configuration
- kemitchell 6y agoCombining PolyForm licenses is certainly possible for many projects. For example, at least in my mind, Noncommercial and Free Trial kind of want to work together, for a pretty common use case. Folks involved in drafting certainly thought about multi-licensing. That said, neither I nor PolyForm Project have fully vetted all combinations. The easy "out" is "talk to a lawyer", to make sure you avoid any footguns. But I not so secretly hope the licenses are easy enough to read, without legal help, for diligent folks to work through implications themselves.