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Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by pabs3 on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:31AM (#31119193)
The AGPL doesn't prevent competitors selling the software, complying with it is reasonably easy even for a SaaS company.
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Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by kamrani on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:18AM (#31120694)
Then I think it's not what I want.
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Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by pabs3 on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:09AM (#31121141)
Its beginning to sound like you don't want an open source license, but a proprietary one instead.
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Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by kamrani on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:42AM (#31132262)
I just want to make sure people can use it for free if they want but I don't want to give the right to sell.
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Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by pabs3 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:47AM (#31133809)
A license that says that couldn't be classed as Open Source or Free Software, but maybe as Ethical Source.

https://ethicalsource.dev/principles/

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