2/2/2026 at 11:48:55 AM
The licence terms / variation on MIT is interesting - unless this file is part of some standard I'm unaware of I'd expect it still shows as plain MIT for most automated SBOM collection/licence checks which feels problematic.by mnahkies
2/2/2026 at 1:24:13 PM
Ouch, why even involve the MIT license if you're gonna do custom terms anyways? Just put "Copyright me" and be done with it instead of ending up with some weird half and half solution. Net effect ends up the same anyways.by embedding-shape
2/3/2026 at 9:57:22 AM
I just thought that MIT for subset of users is better than "My Own License"by rumatoest
2/3/2026 at 9:46:29 AM
Well the point here is that if I created it by myself I can make whatever license I want. But I do not want to write my own license. AFAIK even if you grant something for subset of users for "free" you have to define legally terms of this "free" usage.by rumatoest
2/2/2026 at 1:03:37 PM
Yeah, that kills adoption by most people I'd imagine. Non-standard license terms are always a huge red flag IMO, regardless of actual license terms.by rsyring
2/3/2026 at 9:49:13 AM
It is simple. If you do not like it - do not use it. I do not care. Have no plans to conquer the world with this project :)by rumatoest
2/3/2026 at 10:05:42 AM
I mean you must care a little bit right? Why publish it and share it here otherwise? :) Maybe you're looking for people to just review and learn from the code, rather than use it in their projects?by embedding-shape
2/3/2026 at 10:16:11 AM
From license terms you can see that any independent developer and small teams could use it without any issues.And yes I do not want it to be "free stuff" for big corporations. I just do not know any existing license that can define such terms.
by rumatoest
2/3/2026 at 10:18:57 AM
> From license terms you can see that any independent developer and small teams could use it without any issuesRight, until they cannot, and that choice won't be made from their own agency, and most people will try to avoid ending up there, hence not using the project in the first place.
Not saying "it's doomed to have zero users", but you'll probably find it slightly strange when people seemingly would have perfect use for your project, yet find other options anyways.
> And yes I do not want it to be "free stuff" for big corporations. I just do not know any existing license that can define such terms.
Guess BSL would fit you, but yeah, if you want any sort of restrictions, what you want is something else than Free and Open Source Software, and that's fine of course, just be aware it'll be a hard sell to developers used to FOSS. Again, a fine choice to be making and understandable.
by embedding-shape