[License-discuss] licenses for hosted services

[William Edney]

Miles -

You might also check out the Reciprocal Public License:
https://opensource.org/licenses/RPL-1.5

Authored by Technical Pursuit, it's direct intent is the same "pay for
privacy" business model now enjoyed by companies such as GitHub. In fact,
we couch our commercial offering as a 'waiver' allowing you to keep your
code private.

Cheers,

- Bill

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Smith, McCoy <mccoy.smith at intel.com> wrote:

> Sec 10 of AGPL does not allow the imposition of additional restrictions to
> it (such as "only for non-commercial uses), and section 7 allows a
> recipient to remove those restrictions.
>
> You really are trying to develop a non-open source business model.  This
> board is probably not the best place for trying to do that.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-bounces at opensource.org] On
> Behalf Of Miles Fidelman
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 1:15 PM
> To: license-discuss at opensource.org
> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] licenses for hosted services
>
> Thanks for the starting points, folks.
>
> I'm starting to think something like a dual license
> - AGPL for non-commercial uses (AGPL + borrow some of the language from CC
> BY-NC-*), and,
> - Most of the terms of AGPL (re. download of source, etc.) + a license fee
> for commercial use in an SaaS offering
>
> I'm really wondering if there are any specific examples of someone doing
> this, or of someone trying to do this and running into serious snags.
> (You know, learn from other people's experiences, not reinvent the wheel,
> and if there are really good reasons not to try, better to know
> early.)
>
> And, re. "You might want to post on a non-open source bulletin board" --
> any thoughts on where to post?
>
> Thanks Again,
>
> Miles
>
>
> On 8/5/16 2:06 PM, Stephen Paul Weber 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.
> > 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.
> AND
>
> On 8/5/16 1:46 PM, Smith, McCoy wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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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