Quoting Paulo Coghi - Coghi IT (pauloco...@gmail.com): > Hello community, my name is Paulo Coghi. Nice to meet you!
Welcome, Paulo. > I recently discovered the fair-code model (https://faircode.io/) and I > would like to know if it "fits" on any specific OSI approved license. > > It was created by n8n's author (https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n) as a > way to solve the long discussion taken here > https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40 after he called his software > "open source" Although that issue (bug) item's discussion started out heated, I note with appreciation Karl Fogel's effort to add clarity in his comment. > Thus, I would like to know if there is an approved OSI license that > provides the same rights and obligations as fair-code. > The 4 main points are: [...] > - only the original creator (of the open source software) can sell the > software itself (for example, for self-hosted offers) This violates the letter and spirit of OSD #6. (See: https://opensource.org/osd-annotated) As mentioned, this point implies you're currently seeking a shareware licence. There is nothing wrong with attempting a shareware business model, but then the licence terms enforcing that model (inevitably) make the covered code non-open source (proprietary). The first issue (bug) commenter cited Apache License as one that is often used for commerce-friendly development without proprietary advantage. It might meet your needs, or maybe not. It does not reserve the monopoly over commercial use you mentioned in your four points. -- Cheers, There's no theorem like Bayes's Theorem, like no theorem we know. Rick Moen Everything about it is appealing, everything about it is a wow. rick@linux Let out all that a-priori feeling, you've been concealing, mafia.com right up to now. -- G.E.P. Box (w/apologies to Irving Berlin) _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
