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Re:Mold may switch to non-commercial-only license by rectang on Sunday November 13, 2022 @12:16PM (#33585041)
No, because excluding commercial users is a field-of-use restriction, and you're not FOSS if you only offer a license which imposes a field-of-use restriction. Which is fine! Just don't call it FOSS.
Re:Mold may switch to non-commercial-only license by ghaff on Sunday November 13, 2022 @12:29PM (#33585159)
Furthermore, it's really hard to define what non-commercial actually means. Creative Commons spent something like a decade trying to scope a reasonable definition and eventually ended up essentially punting. With a few exceptions like (arguably) secondary public education use, pretty much any non-trivial use has some commercial component.
Re:Mold may switch to non-commercial-only license by Grimburger on Sunday November 13, 2022 @03:09PM (#33586814)
> you're not FOSS

> don't call it FOSS

The grandparent comment clearly said OSS.

Re:Mold may switch to non-commercial-only license by detaro on Sunday November 13, 2022 @03:35PM (#33587064)
Their statement is just as true if you insert "OSS" instead of "FOSS".
Re:Mold may switch to non-commercial-only license by Grimburger on Monday November 14, 2022 @05:48AM (#33592343)
Playing the semantic game over what is or isn't "open source" is very draining sorry.

If I can look at it, that's open source software to me, you can define that phrase however you want and I'm happy with that too :)

Re:Mold may switch to non-commercial-only license by account42 on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:36AM (#33595500)
There is no semantic game, open source software is a term of art with a much more specific meaning than the source being available. If you find this draining then you can simply stop trying to misappropriate the term.