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by antt 2790 days ago
No, I want a non-commercial license for non-human entities.

I don't care if someone is using my software in their family bakery. If anything I'd be super happy about that.

What I do mind is someone using my software in their multinational baking conglomerate without me ever seeing a cent for the work, while at the same time keeping other developers from ever being paid for developing the software in house.

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> Bakery

> multinational baking conglomerate

> keeping other developers from ever being paid for developing the software in house

Sorry if miss-logicing in these quotes. Please do correct if you thing they're taken out-of-place.

A bakery is commercial. They software they use is baked into the oven and POS. 'family bakery' - do you mind a family member in the store, do you mind them logging it with your name? Do you mind them using a camera to recognise when you come in? Do you mind a staff member recognising you when you come in? Is tallying today's weather vs sandwiches sales OK? Credit card promotion? Different level of Personally Identifiable Identification.

> What I do mind is someone using my software in their multinational baking conglomerate without me ever seeing a cent for the work

Why not? What's the license? Assume in Github. Ask for comments. The people in these companies are hackers too and not cold-blooded fuck-the-customer. If you're got good code for baking, contribute.