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I'm curious about what non-commercial means in practice. > Common examples of non-commercial uses include learning and self-education, open-source contribution
by hiq 1y ago
I'm curious about what non-commercial means in practice.
> Common examples of non-commercial uses include learning and self-education, open-source contributions without earning commercial benefits
What if I start writing code, let's say 80% of a codebase, then for the next 3 months I switch to another editor to write the next 20%, and then commercialize the support (so open-source but with commercial benefits)? Would it be about intent, i.e. it'd be fine if I had no plan to make a business out of it at the beginning, but as soon as there's the idea of a business I should have switched?
I guess in practice this mostly targets companies with 10+ employees so it's fine not to draw the line that clearly?
- speed_spread 1y agoIt means "stay under the radar if you are cheap". This is Jetbrains, not Oracle, there isn't an army of lawyers out to get you the second you breach the agreement.
- dagmx 1y agoIt’s a shame but not unexpected that people reward smaller companies giving their products away for free by trying to abuse the spirit of it.
- deafpolygon 1y agoProbably why they want telemetry. Then, if you go on to make billions- they can sue when it's worth it.