[achenet]

How do you draw the line between companies and individuals? Is a one man consulting 'company' allowed to experiement with the software?

Personally, I feel the way to "save" the open source movement would be simply have maintainers start valuing their time more properly.

Something along the lines of "This is my project, you can use it if you want. If you want a patch added, pay me. If you want support, pay me."

[gioscarab]

A one man company consulting another would apply the software for commercial purposes. Commercial use is not comtemplated by the license. The one man company should contact me and buy a different license.

I am not sure about: >"This is my project, you can use it if you want. If you want a patch added, pay me. If you want support, pay me."

Because if you are an experimenter asking for a patch I could be also interested in, that could help the project in any way, I could consider doing it for free as part of effort required to develop the project.