JetBrains open source licenses have a similar restriction https://www.jetbrains.com/opensource/
> Your project is NOT sponsored by a commercial company or organization and does NOT have paid employees
> Your project does NOT provide commercial services (such as consulting or training) around the software, and does NOT distribute paid versions of the software
I don't think I have ever worked on any where there wasn't a single person writing code while getting paid by their employer. Is that enough to disqualify you from JetBrains criteria, do you think?
In email from travis support it was expressed as:
> Project must not be sponsored by a commercial company or organization (monetary or with employees paid to work on the project)
To me, that seems to say if someone commits code while on the clock, that is employees paid to work on the project.
That definitely disqualifies a huge number of open source projects, probably the majority, right?
I don't use jetbrains, it was brought up by analogy with travis. In Travis case, whether it's a "bad thing" or not, I think it's a dishonest thing to be claiming you provide "free service to open source projects" while introducing criteria that would exclude the majority of open source projects — which you also used to include but have switched to exclude while claiming you're doing the same as ever.
So it's clearly their perogative to set whatever criteria they like, it may or not be a "bad thing", but it is definitely a huge change from what they used to, and is only actually giving free service to a very small slice of open source projects, while publicly wanting to take credit for doing otherwise.
We then realised we didn't need the license, as the community edition has everything we need.
But to move to one of the licensing models on their pricing page requires us to start to pay per-user. How many seats should we buy? I have no idea. Right now, if someone who's given one or two drive-by patches wants their own space on the project, we just give it to them. If it cost us an extra $50/year (or $240/year or $1200/year depending on our tier) for such users, what's the cut-off for who gets to be part of the project? It just changes the whole calculus.
> Your project does NOT provide commercial services (such as consulting or training) around the software, and does NOT distribute paid versions of the software
Jetbrains should really take it to the next level and require all developers on your open source project to provide up-to-date proof of unemployment benefits.
Projects which have a sponsoring company or consulting/training/paid-tier income around them can afford to pay that.
> A Personal license is an option for private individuals who purchase a license with their own funds, and solely for their own use. Personal licenses are not to be purchased, refunded or in any way financed by companies.
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