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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by majewsky on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:29AM (#25032992)
> educational and nonprofit purposes

> once you start to make money

So if a nonprofit uses that software to sell services (they gotta fund their expenses after all), does that count? Seriously. With vague phrasing like this, you're gonna have a bad time. Contracts are that verbose for a reason.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by rusk on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:37AM (#25033034)
That’s why it’s all rights reserved. If you want to use it to make money you have to ask me. In the scenario you describe is probably say that’s okay, but like I say it’s up to me and only me, at the end of the day.

This of course means it’s not open to the kind of free-form open collaboration that typifies Open Source but if anything this just goes to show how more restrictive licences such as GPL actually promote innovation.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by eru on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:45AM (#25033772)
The GPL is perhaps restrictive than the license you suggested.

It's definitely more predictable.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by rusk on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:00AM (#25044606)
Yes but you are still free to make money off the software, and this is the topic under discussion.
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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by eru on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:50AM (#25047270)
Sorry, I missed a word. I was going to say, the GPL is perhaps less restrictive.
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