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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by spockz on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:28AM (#25032572)
Are you familiar with the TimescaleDB license[1]? It basically means open source but companies cannot just take the product and offer it as a (paid?) service. They are allowed to provide other services services that are built with timescale underneath but not offer the product itself as a service.

[1]: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/tsl/LIC...

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by orlandohill on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:51AM (#25033804)
The Polyform Project has two source-available licenses that achieve a similar result.

* Perimeter

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/perimeter/1.0.0

* Shield

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/shield/1.0.0/

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by StavrosK on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:01AM (#25033178)
The TimescaleDB license can only apply to TimescaleDB.
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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by spockz on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:49AM (#25033792)
There is nothing holding you back to create a similar license for your own product.
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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by StavrosK on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:52AM (#25033814)
Except for the fact that I can't afford to pay a lawyer a few thousand dollars to draft a license for my OSS libraries.
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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by Shorel on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:15AM (#25033936)
Treat it like code. Do some refactoring and that's it. I do see your point, if the license had to be written from scratch. But you already have a template. Use it.
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