On 09/06/2020 18:39, Patrick Wigmore wrote: > On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:43:32 +0100, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: >> I don't think I have a way of enforcing that people buy the correct >> version for business, but I could always just have a "Personal Use" >> notice in the title bar or something. > I don't think you can place a restriction like "personal use only" on > how the GPL-licensed software is used. GPL is GPL. > > You could in principle distribute a different version of the software > depending on which fee is paid, but I think it would be invalid to > distribute a version with a notice saying "Personal Use", because that > implies a restriction that's not in the license. At best it's > misleading. > > If you want to apply limitations, then I think you might have to > distribute the business version of the software, or some components of > it that don't appear in the "personal" version, under a different > license. Doing so may or may not be allowed, depending on any > restrictions you may have agreed with third parties. (e.g. code > contributors, library authors, others?) > Point taken. Instead I'll maybe just have a higher support tier or something eg priority email support if you pay a little bit more.
I'll come up with something that seems reasonable anyway, but cheers because I might not have thought of that without your input :) Hamish
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