[HN Gopher] Polyform Licenses
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       Polyform Licenses
        
       Author : GordonS
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2020-10-16 19:35 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (polyformproject.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (polyformproject.org)
        
       | auggierose wrote:
       | Are these designed to be mixed and matched? Like, Polyform-free
       | trial + Polyform-small business?
        
         | OJFord wrote:
         | I think so, it describes it as 'a menu, like Creative Commons'
         | - and on the adopters page 'AppsCode' is described as using
         | 'Non Commercial and Free Trial' (which are two of the licences
         | listed).
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         | But I'm not sure if that means like usual 'dual licensing'
         | (pick your licence) or a conjunction of their terms, so that
         | any pair is more restrictive than its parts.
        
           | auggierose wrote:
           | I saw the AppsCode example too. I guess you can just dual or
           | triple or ... license it. So I guess it is neither union nor
           | intersection of licenses, but variants of licenses.
        
         | justsomeuser wrote:
         | I want this too. E.g. Small business + no permission to
         | distribute/change the code.
         | 
         | I think it would be good to have a list of checkboxes to make
         | your own custom license (e.g. your own definition of small
         | business).
        
       | erlend_sh wrote:
       | I did a podcast interview with two early and very successful
       | adopters of the PolyForm NonCommercial license:
       | https://www.valueinopen.fm/episode/epplus-mats-jan
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       | They are making enough license sales for both of them to be fully
       | self-employed working on EPPlus.
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | Nice. I like the small-businesses license. But I'm missing a
       | license that forbids use of the software for or in conjunction
       | with advertisement and/or user-tracking.
        
       | OJFord wrote:
       | I like the idea of the internal use licence (though I don't know
       | if it's novel - just new to me).
       | 
       | > Use of the software for the internal business operations of you
       | and your company is use for a permitted purpose.
       | 
       | But that's all it says about what it means. Is that really
       | enough? IANAL, but surely that leaves plenty of room for someone
       | who is to argue that their use was 'internal'.
       | 
       | I was expecting paragraphs drawing a line between (external)
       | 'users' and internal business operations, can I use it to crunch
       | user data? Only if not done in a client? Only if a 'one-off'
       | analytical operation not built into my product?
        
       | mathgladiator wrote:
       | This is neat, I'm looking at the licensing for my project.
        
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