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Right, shouldn't it be GPL? BSD can be used in commercial products. And even if the licensing of this project holds up as the author intends: If I make an Open
by zyx321 3y ago
Right, shouldn't it be GPL? BSD can be used in commercial products.
And even if the licensing of this project holds up as the author intends: If I make an Open Source project based on this, and someone else uses that in a commercial product, it would be 100% legal according to the BSD license.
- malkarouri 3y agoExactly. Should be GPL licensed, and commercial projects can always buy commercial licenses.
- w0m 3y agoThat might be his intention; at least force an intermediary OSS app before commercial use. else-payup.
- zyx321 3y agoI could create a fork that differs only in name and maybe changes one or two default settings. See also: Chromium forks that disable telemetry and nothing else.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoThe commercial license comes with some added functionality, and support. I suspect the "for open source projects" and "for commercial software" labels aren't meant as restrictions (i.e., "Only these kinds of projects can use this license") but rather as suggestions ("If you have this kind of project, you'll probably want to use this license"). Though as it stands, it's definitely ambiguous, which is the last thing anyone wants from their licensing agreement.