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Re:Show HN: Home-made crypto in the browser by lisper on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:29AM (#15527212)
It's free for non-commercial purposes. But yes, it's true that if you want to use it in a commercial product you'll have to work out some other arrangement.
Re:Show HN: Home-made crypto in the browser by susam on Sunday October 22, 2017 @12:43PM (#15527626)
CC BY-NC-SA does not permit the use of the software for commercial purposes. Thus it is not free for commercial purposes. This violates a few generally accepted principles of software freedom:

* Freedom 0 of the Free Software Definition: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

* Point 6 of the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG): No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor: The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

* Point 6 of the Open Source Definition (OSD): No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor: The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

FSD: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

DFSG: https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

OSD: https://opensource.org/docs/osd

Re:Show HN: Home-made crypto in the browser by lisper on Sunday October 22, 2017 @01:45PM (#15527952)
Fair enough. I have added the GPLv3 as an option.
Re:Show HN: Home-made crypto in the browser by hlieberman on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:59AM (#15527373)
Hence, non-free. Perhaps we are having a language confusion; here, I mean free as in freedom, not as in beer.
Re:Show HN: Home-made crypto in the browser by lisper on Sunday October 22, 2017 @01:45PM (#15527953)
Fair enough. I have added the GPLv3 as an option.
Re:Show HN: Home-made crypto in the browser by foo101 on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:59AM (#15527380)
Software that is free only for non-commercial purposes is considered to be non-free software.
Re:Show HN: Home-made crypto in the browser by lisper on Sunday October 22, 2017 @01:45PM (#15527954)
Fair enough. I have added the GPLv3 as an option.