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Yeah maybe I'll look into a simpler licensing as it may indeed be confusing and just drop the requirement, it's not like I really planned to make money with it anyways.

While I doubt this project will ever reach the popularity of projects such as docker, terraform, mondogb, wordpress, corejs, and many others, I'd like to avoid having issues that they encountered later due to their licensing.

Basically having companies that could afford to contribute and help maintainers but that choose to not do it just for pure greed, while keeping it free for everyone else that continue to make open project or just non-profit/personal use case.

As I'm no legal expert, the intention may not have been very clear in the wording though



It's certainly confusing as presented, both for MIT-plus-restrictions, and the dual licensing.

For a lawyer's opinion on those two things, see:

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2022/01/21/MIT-for-Noncommerc...

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2023/09/10/Two-Kinds-Dual-Lic...




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