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Sorta side question: is it legal/ethical to say, “open source unless you’re a company of more than X people then it’s X * $Y to license”
by JoeCee 5y ago
Sorta side question: is it legal/ethical to say, “open source unless you’re a company of more than X people then it’s X * $Y to license”
- jmull 5y agoThat's fine, except don't call it an "open source" license. That's a commercial license.
- joebob42 5y agoI think it's still open source, it's just not free right?
- pabs3 5y agoThe Open Source Definition precludes that type of license, since it discriminates against Persons or Groups or Fields of Endeavor: https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd You can of course create such a license, but it would not be an open source license, more like a shared source license or ethical license or something else.
- dnissley 5y agoIt's perfectly legal/ethical, but it would not be open source at that point. Same as licenses that prevent companies from running the licensed product as a cloud service, even if the source is freely available to view or use in a private capacity.