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Re:Show HN: A license designed to save the open source movement by gioscarab on Sunday March 20, 2022 @10:08AM (#30742709)
The idea is, let experimenters tinker with it and help you develop your idea, while at the same time exclude companies, institutions, organizations and corporations. If the software is interesting for them they can contact the copyright holder to buy a different license.

Instead of giving away for free our work to entities that may work against our own interests, we give it away for free only to people like us.

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Re:Show HN: A license designed to save the open source movement by h2odragon on Sunday March 20, 2022 @10:12AM (#30742740)
Hobby clubs? Nonprofit organizations?

It's a difficult space and there's reasons there's so many options already. Not that it isn't worth further effort, and more options are often useful.

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Re:Show HN: A license designed to save the open source movement by gioscarab on Sunday March 20, 2022 @10:15AM (#30742771)
Hobby clubs could not use it because they are an organization, members of the club could use it because they are individuals playing with their hobby. Non-profit organizations could not use it.

I must say often non-profit organizations even if not producing money have strong conflicts of interest.

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