Open Source Commercial Restrictions
The cluster centers on debates about whether open-source licenses can prohibit commercial use, with commenters citing the Open Source Definition that requires allowing commercial usage and discussing alternatives like dual licensing.
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You can't use it in an open-source project. Open source licenses don't restrict commercial use.
Just curious, couldn't you open source it but have a license that doesn't allow commercial usage of it?
Is there a no commercial use license?
No Open-Source license forbids commercial use.
Where does it prohibit commercial use? Iām not seeing that in the license.
Discriminating against commercial usage is not allowed under the Open Source Definition:https://opensource.org/osd
Why forbid commercial use? Wouldn't the GPL be enough and keep the software free?
Then it isn't MIT licensed. The MIT license allows for commercial use.
do you mean to say it wouldn't be libre software, due to the commercial use restriction?
Doesn't this just mean you have to contact the author to work out terms for a commercial license?