Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by hanniabu on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:22PM
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What are better alternative licenses that also wouldn't deter contributors?
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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by eloisant on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:00AM
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So you're looking for a license that would give you all the benefits but still encourage people to contribute - so only you get their work for free?
Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by hanniabu on Friday January 22, 2021 @09:01AM
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Yes and no. I think I remember hearing about a license before that would require anybody that forks your project to create a PR for any changes they make.
While this wouldn't prevent a company from using your project, but it would at least force them to pass on any of their changes.
Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by jasonlotito on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:41PM
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> While this wouldn't prevent a company from using your project...
...it would deter them, which is what your original question was asking. Preventing and deterring are two completely different things.
Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by belval on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:54PM
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I am not sure that there are, but that's also the point. Open source software does not guarantee or even offer a business model. If you want to license your project with a "do what you want, no warranty" license that is attractive to contributors, you cannot also add a clause to limit something.