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xdgrulez

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xdgrulez··on Human Source License (HSL)
Hey,

I've done some more work on a license that I'd like to put forward as a response to Open Source just making the richest even richer.

My response is the "Human Source License" (https://github.com/xdgrulez/human-source-license).

It's still kinda Open Source, but with deterrent clauses to make bigger organizations pay for what we OS coders create.

Imagine a tool like pandas uses this license. Or numpy. Then those who work on the code actually get rewarded for the work they do. And the big companies do not get it all for free. Including those who'd love to use that stuff for training their AI coding models ;-)

Please have a look :)

Cheers, Ralph

xdgrulez··on Ask HN: HSL 0.1 – The Human Source License. Please help refining
I won't give up so soon. Sure it will be hard to protect a license like this, but who has ever tried? If we keep using Apache or so, we have no lever whatsoever. We should at least try.