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Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by senko on Saturday July 30, 2016 @01:50PM (#12193908)
> Can we create a license which allows source distribution and collaboration openly and is free to use for individuals and non-profits but companies have to pay if they use it for commercial purpose.

These kinds of licenses have existed for a long time. They're not open source, though.

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Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by neokya on Saturday July 30, 2016 @01:58PM (#12193946)
Could you post some references I could read? I am quite interested why they didn't work.

As far as I see, popular licenses are: 1. Commercial source 2. Open source - copy left eg. GPL 3. Open source - liberal, do whatever you like eg. MIT

which are just handful, when software is eating the world ;)

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Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by senko on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:28PM (#12194091)
QT famously had a dual, "non-commercial" and "commercial" licenses, before they switched to LGPL.

From wikipedia / web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20031005175911/http://www.trollt...

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Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by molecule on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:24PM (#12194064)
Highcharts.js has a free-for-noncommercial, paid-otherwise license system

https://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts

(Not affiliated, but using highcharts for a project @ a non-profit)

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Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by zzalpha on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:03PM (#12193968)
gSOAP has a separate commercial use license. They use a mix of GPLv2 plus a separate license for companies that want to avoid having to relicense their own products under the GPL (as a consequence of the viral nature of GPL vs something like LGPL).
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