[License-discuss] licenses for hosted services

[Lawrence Rosen]

Miles Fidelman wrote:
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.

Stephen Paul Weber responded:
Of course, such a license would not be open source. However, I believe that AGPL would get you very close to the spirit of what you want, while still being an open source license.

Larry Rosen now comments:
AGPL doesn't affect for-profit hosting. It only affects *proprietary* hosting of AGPL code to third parties over a network, for which the copyright owner can demand a for-fee AGPL license exception.

/Larry

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