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This may be of interest to others here. After reviewing the existing OSS licenses, I decided to write my own (SAUCR: Source Available Under Commercial Restriction—pronounced "saucer"). I'm still working on formalizing the details of it so others can use it, but if you're curious there's an example here [1].

tl;dr it gives specific permissions as to what derivative works are and are not permitted while making the source available for others. The key being: you can be as permissive or as limited as you want in how your code is used.

[1] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick/blob/development/LICEN...




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