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by gammagoblin 2788 days ago
I went into this thread expecting to find Commons Clause apologists, and you did not disappoint.

>Calling it Apache 2.0 + Common Clause makes sense, it's an extremely well known license and it's easier to start there and then say "but with some restrictions"

And that is exactly the problem. You are not interested in the Apache 2.0 license, so stop attaching your own terms to it and undermining it like a parasite. Find another license that has the terms you're interested in or write your own.

You don't want a FOSS license, and you aren't interested in writing FOSS software. You do not care about the Apache 2.0 license, you just want to slap it on your software as if it was a brand. You are interested in the marketting opportunity that branding your project with such a license brings to you, not the actual terms of the license itself. That is exactly the point of the blog post, and so you should stop using it.

You are undermining FOSS. These licenses were written on the good faith assumption that people would not go and add restrictive terms to them that are directly opposed to the principles and ethics of the license. You are doing that, and that means you are undermining the license and the efforts of all FOSS licensing by legitimising this kind of parasitic behaviour.

Just fucking stop, and write your own god damn license.