[License-discuss] licenses for hosted services

[Miles Fidelman]

Hi Folks,

I'm working on some code that will eventually be made available as both 
open source code, and a hosted service (think Wordpress, Drupal, etc.).

I'm wondering if anybody has any experience or thoughts about licenses 
that permit self-hosting, and free hosting, but require a license fee 
for for-profit hosting.

It strikes me that hosting is a reasonable business model for generating 
sustaining revenue from open source code, but that it gets diluted very 
quickly if anybody can free-ride (i.e., as much as I find it convenient 
to, at times, set up a quick wordpress account on godaddy - it strikes 
me as just a might unfair that I'm paying godaddy, but they're not 
paying the folks at wordpress, and worse, they're siphoning off 
customers from wordpress).

Anybody have thoughts on the matter?

Thanks,

Miles Fidelman


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