<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div>Hello list,<div><br></div><div>It’s important to remember that open-source is different than free, which is different than copy-left.</div><div><br></div><div>The two most prominent early examples of open-source software (Smalltalk and UNIX) were both very much copyrighted commercial products of large companies.</div><div><br></div><div>By the same token, there are many free software applications these days that are closed-source, distributed as compiled binaries.</div><div><br></div><div>The copy-left made (in-) famous by the GNU project says, “by incorporating this software into your own (or even using these tools [e.g., gcc] to develop your software), you are required to make your software free and open-source.</div><div><br></div><div>Either way, end-user licenses are free to stipulate any conditions on the use of the software that the developer wishes, such as, “By using this software, the end-user commits to name their first-born child Moonbeam,” or, as in the case of both JUCE and Visualworks, “free for non-commercial use only.” </div><div><br></div><div>stp<br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 25, 2022, at 8:31 PM, rabbit <rabbit@callistohouse.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto">I am unfamiliar with FOSS licensing. Does anyone know about an open source license that allows free use for free software, but requires payment if its uses are for commercial software?<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">•••<br>𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙤𝙧 </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙨𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨! </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 17pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Arrivederci, rabbit • D</i></b>𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙪𝙣 </span><span style="font-size: 17pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">𝟮𝟰𝟬</span><span style="font-size: 17pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">𝙕 • </span><span style="font-size: 17pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">🐰</span></div></div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>