Re:Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security au...
by justin66 on Friday August 01, 2025 @02:41PM
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The point you're trying to make about Curl is more unclear than anything in that license.
Re:Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security au...
by mananaysiempre on Friday August 01, 2025 @03:04PM
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It’s a reference to a four-year-old discussion[1] in the Curl bug tracker about Travis CI introducing a similar prohibition on commercial activity in relation to open-source projects. The more general point is, fully open-source projects that earn money via support contracts are few and precious, and it’s a dick move to cut them off.
> Open source maintainers can request a free license by emailing [email protected] and including a link to their [GitHub] repository. Once approved, we provide a SAFE license for one month or up to a year, depending on the project’s needs, at no cost.
The legalese[1] (is incoherent but apparently) does not pass the Curl test, that is, the maintainer of Curl—who gets money by providing commercial support for his completely FOSS project—wouldn’t be allowed to use this had it applied to him:
> You can only use SAFE for open-source software. Any commercial use is prohibited.
[1] https://www.erlang-solutions.com/policies/safe-for-open-sour...