The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source

Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by mindcrime on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:39PM (#17819951)

There is nothing to see here, folks; "free-with-source for non-commercial use" has been a thing in the proprietary world for decades. It's like "free trial" or "freemium" with source code.

Right. And if they would just call it that and not try to make it sound like it's "sorta / kinda Apache licensed" then I wouldn't really care. But it's like people using this clause want to benefit from the general perception of open-ness and the wide acceptance of the ALv2, while not actually being Open Source. It's just dishonest.

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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by kazinator on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:47PM (#17821486)

You are right; if you're going to radically change a license by adding a free-for-noncommercial-use type clause, you should change the name, and don't maintain even the slightest insinuations that it's related to the original license. Textually it may be, but legally it's a completely different beast.

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