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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by juergbi on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:23AM (#32579851)
While this may be an option in some cases, this wouldn't be an open source project.
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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by jb1991 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:26AM (#32579892)
open source means the source is.. open. It does not mean the source is necessary free. These two points are not in conflict.
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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by jahewson on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @12:42PM (#32582020)
That is not how we define open source. See:

https://opensource.org/osd

Openness is much more than “source available”. Open for use by others is an important part of that.

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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by jb1991 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:06PM (#32588959)
"unlicensed open source" exists, however -- it is a real thing, referred to as open source, despite that it cannot be used legally.

i.e. https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/unlicensed-...

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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by amrocha on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @04:30PM (#32585339)
That's not how I've decided to define open source. Looking forward to seeing that page updated!
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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by chrsig on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:24AM (#32579865)
do you mean to say it wouldn't be libre software, due to the commercial use restriction?
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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by random314 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @03:10PM (#32584294)
Yes
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