[License-discuss] licenses for hosted services

[Smith, McCoy]

There are any number of licenses written in this way.  CC BY-NC-* for example.
None of them are open source, however.  See OSD 1 & 6.

You might want to post on a non-open source bulletin board.

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From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-bounces at opensource.org] On Behalf Of Miles Fidelman
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 10:36 AM
To: license-discuss at opensource.org
Subject: [License-discuss] licenses for hosted services

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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