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Adding a non-compete clause to your license is not "literally nothing" - in fact, it might be extremely problematic for a large number of downstream users. As

Adding a non-compete clause to your license is not "literally nothing" - in fact, it might be extremely problematic for a large number of downstream users. As for "abusing the goodwill of the open source community", that's kind of the point of FOSS. Free riding is not stealing. That's proprietary world logic, and everyone saying we need to stop people from free riding FOSS is calling for the enclosure of the commons. Let me be perfectly clear: there is no license condition you can put on software that will let everyone use it as if it were in the commons but prevent Amazon Web Services from hosting it.

piaste 3y ago
> Let me be perfectly clear: there is no license condition you can put on software that will let everyone use it as if it were in the commons but prevent Amazon Web Services from hosting it. "The following licence is granted to everyone except the following entities: Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle"
- arlcode 3y ago
  "Today Amazon introduces the AWS Partnered Software Supplier Programm. Selected companies are invited to offer their products as deeply integrated AWS services. The first announced Parter are: Not-at-all-amazon-for-hashicorp inc, Not-at-all-amazon-for-mariadb inc."