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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by svnpenn on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:20PM (#19438304)
interesting

what license would you even use for that - it seems everything here allows commercial

https://choosealicense.com/appendix

Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by captainbland on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @09:08AM (#19441650)
I guess the Fair Source License should fit in there:

https://fair.io/#license

This is basically "you're free to use the application and the source unless you're a company where 25 people or more will be using/modifying this software". Mind you, I see an issue with this where proving that the number of people are actually using the software is difficult. I'd prefer a version where it's just the number of people in the organisation in total.

Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by slavik81 on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @10:02AM (#19442247)
I don't think I could use that software as a student. Even if I was considered independent of the school (which is unclear), my professor would not be, so I would not be able to use software under that license in a project for credit.
Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by witten on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:16AM (#19439223)
Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by sudhirj on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:44AM (#19439351)
Aren’t Creaive Commons licenses not suitable for code? Can’t find a reference but they seemed pretty clear about that.
Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by mch82 on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:24AM (#19439539)
Correct, Creative Commons recommends using alternate licenses for code. See “Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software?”, https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

Creative Commons licenses are good for documentation and manuals.

Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by witten on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:21AM (#19509489)
You are correct. And yet I've found multiple cases in which they're used for code.