Virgile Andreani ⏚ 🇵🇸Do you know of any software licenses that would allow everything for academics and the general public, and would require companies to pay to use the software?
Graham Lee, D.Phil@Armavica the open source definition doesn’t solute for discrimination by field of endeavour, and that condition you have is discriminatory.
@leeg What about the non-commercial clause of CC licenses?
@Armavica they don't satisfy the open source definition and they aren't open source licenses (see this page, where the definition of a "free cultural work" is very similar to the "four freedoms" of free software that inform the OSD: https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/freeworks/). NC clauses are also problematic, because there isn't a generally-agreed definition of the scope of "commercial behavior".
Understanding Free Cultural Works - Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides a range of licenses, each of which grants different rights to use the materials licensed under them. All of these licenses offer more permissions than “all rights reserved.” To help show more clearly what the different CC licenses let people do, CC marks the most permissive of its licenses as “Approved for…
@Armavica also note the broader problem that you asked about software licenses, and no CC license is a good software license https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software
@leeg Thank you for the references, I will read them with attention