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> We apologize for having to do this, but Engauge is closed to code contributions (at this time). This keeps the code base free of proprietary or licensed code.

• daenney 6y ago
  The Competition and Noncompete sections of the license aren’t inline with open source licenses. It’s more of a SSPL style license. The license as a whole feels a bit like a random hack job. This project should call itself source available.
  • viraptor 6y ago
    The non-compete specifically is dangerously under-specified. This is close to crayon license issues https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1445/how-can-a-crayon-license-be-a-problem https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1445/how-can-...
  • varispeed 6y ago
    Open source != free for all I think it's good that people use alternative licenses. It's about time the situation, where there is a nice project conceived in a garage and developed into maturity with the hands of volunteers and then appropriated by a big corporation that then make billions out of it without sharing any profits, ends. Open source was never meant to be exploited this way, but big corporations started to see it as a big R&D money saver and started promoting it. We should see through that. Developers deserve to be paid and shouldn't be exploited by big corporations who wipe their conscience with Open Source PR.
• engaugeai 6y ago
  Yes, great questions! Polyform is an awesome set of open-source licenses: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/ https://polyformproject.org/licenses/ The choice of license is perhaps ambitious / premature. It is chosen so that I can add whatever features to the open-source version being confident that some startup (or possible even larger company) could not attempt to productize it themselves.
  • ForHackernews 6y ago
    > PolyForm is not… > Open source or free software. There are plenty of existing open source licenses. PolyForm is not a substitute for them, but an alternative for those who want to license source code under limited rights. https://polyformproject.org/what-is-polyform/ https://polyformproject.org/what-is-polyform/
    • engaugeai 6y ago
      Ah yes, I stand corrected. It is difficult to discuss these things sometimes as everyone has a slightly modified definition of "open-source", etc. I guess I did not see a valid reason why this project would be used as a dependency in another software project/product (open-source or otherwise) so Polyform did not seem limiting.
      • tirrex 6y ago
        I understand your concern. Open source licenses are the ones that Open Source Initiative approved and just a note, you can’t have an open source license and prevent someone else to create a product from your work. Anyway, hope you find a license that fits your requirements. Good luck with your project.
      • ForHackernews 6y ago
        I'm not an open-source purist myself, and Polyform seems like it might be very useful for many kinds of projects. Just be careful because some people get very salty about things claiming to be "open" when what they mean is "source-available".