[HN Gopher] Polyform Licenses ___________________________________________________________________ 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). | | 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 | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-10-16 23:00 UTC)