<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Keep in mind also that if you have any plans to accept contributions to this codebase (having it be an open source project, instead of just open source software), using such a license could be quite an impediment. Having additional copyright holders, who are potentially involved in any actions you might take to enforce the 'no SaaS for money' restriction, might be complex (at best).<br><br></div>As far as places to discuss such things, there are probably few public forums in which such discussions might happen, due to the fact that you'll rapidly enter the domain of 'legal advice' and finding attorneys who will provide such advice for free in a public forum for a license which won't meet the OSD seems unlikely. The OSD says (in clause 6):<br><br>The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a
specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the
program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic
research.<br><br></div>That's pretty clear.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Rick Moen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Quoting Miles Fidelman (<a href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>):<br>
<br>
> Seems to me that this is an open source business model, just not one<br>
> where all things are free.<br>
<br>
</span>Sorry, no.<br>
<br>
This comes up quite a bit, and Engel Nyst gave back in 2013 the answer<br>
I'd give, so here's his answer:<br>
<a href="https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2013-December/018777.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.opensource.org/<wbr>pipermail/license-discuss/<wbr>2013-December/018777.html</a><br>
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