The argument against Source Available licenses in a single sentence;

"We need to stop torture, but we can't do it through software licenses."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html

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#SoftwareFreedom #SourceAvailable #CopyFarLeft

"After I joined the company, and a year of evaluating alternatives, in March 2024, we decided to move Redis to the SSPL license. This achieved our goal—AWS and Google now maintain their own fork ..."

#RowanTrollope, 2025

https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/

Huh. No wonder warning them that a relicense to SPPL would only result in a fork had no impact. It never occurred to me that getting corporate re-users to fork was the *goal*! But that kind of makes sense.

#Redis #SSPL #SourceAvailable #AGPL

Wow Keychron sharing all the industrial design files for 83 of their products is very cool. They're releasing it as a source-available non-commercial license but explicitly encourages non-commercial community modding and accessory development. This is also very encouraging from a right to repair perspective!

#MechanicalKeyboard #RightToRepair #SourceAvailable

I've been working on a new project.

MySocialsInfo is a #LinkInBio profile engine that lets you create a highly customized profile without touching any code. You will be able to either create a profile on the site (& even point your domain to it!) or host it on your own server using the same code that runs on my servers (once I publish the code).

Visit https://MySocials.Info to join the mailing list. Closed beta soon!

#selfhosting #YourSourceIsShowing #privacy #web #creator #SourceAvailable

MySocialsInfo is a #LinkInBio profile engine that lets you create a highly customized profile without touching any code. You will be able to either create a profile on the site (& even point your domain to it!) or host it on your own server using the same code that runs on my servers (once I publish the code).

Visit https://MySocials.Info to join the mailing list. Closed beta soon!

#selfhosting #YourSourceIsShowing #privacy #web #creator #SourceAvailable

What are your thoughts on noncommercial source-available licenses for projects by small companies / individuals?

#OpenSource #sourceavailable #foss

'Source available' is not open source (and that's okay)

https://dri.es/source-available-is-not-open-source-and-that-is-okay

#HackerNews #SourceAvailable #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #TechInsights #HackerNews

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115692071460280703

Wrote about this recently as well. We don't want Source Available to become the standard. Its not gonna help - https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2025/oss-and-sas/

#sourcewashing #OSS #OpenSource #SourceAvailable #SAS

Một nhà phát triển đang tìm hiểu về tính khả thi của mô hình kinh doanh phần mềm tự host, mã nguồn mở/khả dụng: miễn phí cho mục đích phi thương mại, nhưng yêu cầu trả phí cho thương mại. Liệu mô hình này có bền vững để duy trì phát triển và tạo thu nhập?

#Software #BusinessModel #SourceAvailable #SelfHosted #Licensing #PhanMem #MoHinhKinhDoanh #MaNguonMo #TuHost #CapPhep

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1pcwiqk/does_a_free_for_noncommercial_paid_for_commercial/

https://chinstrap.community/yet-another-license-change/

#baitandswitch #COSS #OpenSource #oss #rugpull #SourceAvailable