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by neuland 3508 days ago
I don't think that's possible in the spirit of open source or free software.

If I under stand you correctly, projects that use a commercial-paid/non-commerial-free project as a dependency would also be required to use a compatible business-paid/personal-free license.

This is what people complain about re: the GPL.

It says that the most important thing is getting paid, and we'll throw the non-commercial people (non-profits, personal projects, etc) a bone, because maybe they'll contribute something back to us.

That's fine to do if someone wants to. But, it's certainly not free software. And, it's not open source either, except that the source is visible.

Like others have said, visible source it's all that helpful if you can't do anything with it.

Business should donate more to free software.