Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by hanniabu on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:17PM
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What open source license would prevent someone from capitalizing on your project?
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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by Phrodo_00 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:29PM
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No open source license prevents people from capitalizing your project. Adding a non-commercial clause to an OSS license makes it not comply with OSS anymore.
Preventing companies from hosting the software with propietary changes can be done with licenses like the AGPL, but again, the objective is not to disallow commercial use, but rather to force the source code to be available for the users of the software.