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This is simple I wrote a license The license says there are two licenses If you are non-commercial you get MIT If you are commercial you email for terms There

by rhodey 1y ago

This is simple I wrote a license The license says there are two licenses If you are non-commercial you get MIT If you are commercial you email for terms There is nowhere a claim that this is MIT

Retr0id 1y ago
You can create any custom license terms you like, as you have done, but if you refer to it as the "MIT License" (which you do, explicitly) without the source being available under the MIT license, you invite only confusion.
- rhodey 1y ago
  If I published using any non-commercial license whatsoever there would be disagreements so here we are all the same
  - yreg 1y ago
    Yeah, why do anything right, people will complain all the same. /s
ahazred8ta 1y ago
Your lawyer will explain to you that what you wanted, and what your license terms actually mean, are two different things. There are noncommercial users who have downloaded your software and are using it under the terms of the MIT license. You already gave them permission. Now, they can give copies to commercial users, who can use it under the terms of the MIT license. Your lawyer will explain this to you.
- rhodey 1y ago
  > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software
  - soulofmischief 1y ago
    You can just change the license, that's what MIT allows for. You are allowed to do whatever you want: MIT License Copyright (c) [year] [fullname] Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), **to deal in the Software without restriction**, including **without limitation** the rights to use, copy, *modify*, merge, publish, distribute, *sublicense*, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. You have to keep the copyright notice and notice of existing permissions, but that is not the same thing as a license. And you are allowed to sublicense into a more restrictive license (such as proprietary/closed source). Just not the other way around, which is what the inclusion of the existing notice helps to enforce.
xorcist 1y ago
So being non-commercial I can just fork and redistribute the software under MIT license? Strange, but acceptable.

by rhodey 1y ago

This is simple I wrote a license The license says there are two licenses If you are non-commercial you get MIT If you are commercial you email for terms There is nowhere a claim that this is MIT

Retr0id 1y ago

You can create any custom license terms you like, as you have done, but if you refer to it as the "MIT License" (which you do, explicitly) without the source being available under the MIT license, you invite only confusion.

rhodey 1y ago
If I published using any non-commercial license whatsoever there would be disagreements so here we are all the same
- yreg 1y ago
  Yeah, why do anything right, people will complain all the same. /s

ahazred8ta 1y ago

Your lawyer will explain to you that what you wanted, and what your license terms actually mean, are two different things. There are noncommercial users who have downloaded your software and are using it under the terms of the MIT license. You already gave them permission. Now, they can give copies to commercial users, who can use it under the terms of the MIT license. Your lawyer will explain this to you.

rhodey 1y ago
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software
- soulofmischief 1y ago
  You can just change the license, that's what MIT allows for. You are allowed to do whatever you want: MIT License Copyright (c) [year] [fullname] Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), **to deal in the Software without restriction**, including **without limitation** the rights to use, copy, *modify*, merge, publish, distribute, *sublicense*, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. You have to keep the copyright notice and notice of existing permissions, but that is not the same thing as a license. And you are allowed to sublicense into a more restrictive license (such as proprietary/closed source). Just not the other way around, which is what the inclusion of the existing notice helps to enforce.

xorcist 1y ago

So being non-commercial I can just fork and redistribute the software under MIT license? Strange, but acceptable.