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> However, if you are a 'user' in the sense of a company wanting to make software to sell as a service (...) That does not meet the definition of "user", does
by arinlen 4y ago
> However, if you are a 'user' in the sense of a company wanting to make software to sell as a service (...)
That does not meet the definition of "user", does it?
In addition, if that was the motivation behind that absurd claim, why not be honest and just say "we don't release our software under a FLOSS license because what we actually want is to keep it proprietary"?
- cortesoft 4y agoIt means ‘user’ in the sense of the person who is choosing what software to include in their work stack, and most software of this type is going to be used in a professional setting. If you use a license that most legal departments won’t let their developers use, your software won’t gain much adoption… which is especially important if you are planning on making money from your software. People aren’t going to be paying for support for their personal projects.