<div dir="ltr">Miles -<div><br></div><div>You might also check out the Reciprocal Public License: <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/RPL-1.5">https://opensource.org/licenses/RPL-1.5</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>- Bill</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Smith, McCoy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mccoy.smith@intel.com" target="_blank">mccoy.smith@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Thanks for the starting points, folks.<br>
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I'm starting to think something like a dual license<br>
- AGPL for non-commercial uses (AGPL + borrow some of the language from CC BY-NC-*), and,<br>
- Most of the terms of AGPL (re. download of source, etc.) + a license fee for commercial use in an SaaS offering<br>
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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.<br>
(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<br>
early.)<br>
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And, re. "You might want to post on a non-open source bulletin board" -- any thoughts on where to post?<br>
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Thanks Again,<br>
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Miles<br>
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On 8/5/16 2:06 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:<br>
>> 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.<br>
> 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.<br>
AND<br>
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On 8/5/16 1:46 PM, Smith, McCoy wrote:<br>
> There are any number of licenses written in this way. CC BY-NC-* for example.<br>
> None of them are open source, however. See OSD 1 & 6.<br>
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> You might want to post on a non-open source bulletin board.<br>
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> Subject: [License-discuss] licenses for hosted services<br>
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> Hi Folks,<br>
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> 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.).<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> 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).<br>
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> Anybody have thoughts on the matter?<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Miles Fidelman<br>
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