I am working on some software that I would like to open-source. I want to build a business around the software though. Therefore, I have (seemingly common) concerns regarding a competing company using the software.<p>There are some source-available licenses that seem to offer most of the good parts of open-source and protect against my worries. However, I'm not sure if source-available or these licenses in particular are the right way to go.<p>https://polyformproject.org/<p>Does anyone here have source-available experience they can share? There are almost certainly aspects of this decision that I haven't considered.
With source available, you can't use the words open source anymore. These licenses are starting to be rejected by the OSS license committee.<p>IMHO, the companies using these want to have their cake and eat it too.<p>Look at how Google has partnered with these companies that did this relicensing primarily because of Amazon. Look what Amazon did with elastic search
Check out JJ's site <a href="https://coss.media" rel="nofollow">https://coss.media</a> and be sure to check out his interviews on YouTube, in particular the one with Sid from GitLab and another with Armory<p>Too much amazing info to unpack here