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I would like a relatively permissive software license which forbids any profiteering (CC-NC but then strictly software).

I'm fine with people using my code, not fine with companies profiteering off my work. If you want to use it commercially, pay for it.






If it can't be used commercially, then that's not an open-source license. If you choose to license your work that way, that's your choice, but you're not making something open-source.

Who said it can’t be used commercially? Just because they can’t profit from it doesn’t stop them using it.

From the post to which I replied: "If you want to use it commercially, pay for it.". I am replying to them talking about a license that prevent commercial use.

Ah, my mistake. It's an interesting idea for a license. "Free for non-commercial use" is an idea often used in closed source software, but not open source. If a software license like this doesn't already exist, it should, so that software developers can easily choose it.



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