[quaffapint]

For my upcoming saas I wanted to do something similar...

-Paid hosted saas solution

-Freely downloadable to use and install for your own projects

...I want people to be allowed to make money with it even if they freely download it, but I just don't want them to be able to compete with my hosted saas.

I'm not quite sure that this is what the BSL is saying, so is there a license for something like that?

[progval]

This is mostly the goal of MongoDB's license, the Service-Side Public License:

> A company that offers a publicly available MongoDB as a service must release the software it uses to offer such service under the terms of the SSPL, including the management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the source code made available.

https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...

[thebigshane]

I think that is what Armin was looking for as well, but couldn't find anything that quite did that so settled on the BSL instead (probably because determining what fork qualifies as competing or not seems hard). BSL seems close, but seems to disallow any commercial usage (IANAL!)?

[candiddevmike]

I've looked into this in the past and couldn't find any non commercial licenses. Creative Commons has one, but it isn't suitable for software as it lacks a warranty clause. Curious if there is anything out there too.