[License-discuss] we need a new license for earning money

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Pirmin Braun (pb at intars.de):

> let's try to explain with another rant:
> there is already some contradiction in the OSI defnition: "must not
> restrict anyone from making use of the program" because if someone
> wants to make use but can't without help and this help is only offered
> for money, he's restricted.

Obviously, the language of OSD #6 states that the _licence_ must not
restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of
endeavour.  Everyone is restricted by various things outside of
licences, including being restricted by limited funds.   OSI is not
requiring the elimination of material want.

And thus, no, that is not 'contradiction'.

> Finally "discrimination": Distinguishing users by their income or
> revenue or other appropriate economical metrics is not discrimination. 

(Insert Lewis Carroll quotation of Humpty Dumpty about word meanings,
here.)  In point of fact, all software has associated costs at various
levels, so none of it ever is completely free of expenses.

Pirmin, I hope you'll take this the right way, but I'm reasonably sure
you knew you were making completely bogus arguments, right?  And it's a
line of reasoning OSI (for whom I don't speak, just to be clear) hears
frequently:  Please change OSD to help me make money by permitting me to
restrict commercial use to require payment to me, but still able to call
my software OSD-compliant.

But no.  Sorry, that was pretty much the first-settled argument of them
all.  Excluding the shareware-style
you-may-use-this-in-commerce-only-if-you-pay-me model was the core
reason for OSD #6 in the first place.

If you feel you cannot make money using open source, it may be that open
source just isn't for you (within whatever context you feel it can't
work for you).  That's just the way it is.   Special pleading will not
avail.

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