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MIT for Noncommercial is Broken — /dev/lawyer

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use a real noncommercial software license

January 21, 2022 MIT for Noncommercial is Brokenuse a real noncommercial software license I recently read through James Turner’s “Open Source Has a Funding Problem” on the Stack Overflow blog. I recommend it. Great addition to all the new writing on open software funding and business realities. There was one minor error that bothered me, mentioned just in passing: For example, having a dual licensing of MIT for non-commercial and a custom license for commercial purposes. I get what that means. I think others will, too. But legally, it doesn’t work. Don’t say “MIT, but only for…

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