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> It seems reasonable to me at least to say: you can use this software for free, but you can't resell it. If you want professional support, please support someone who is maintaining the software.

Well, first of all I disagree that that's reasonable, but let's be clear here:

any license with a non-commerciality provision is not open source. This is explicitly part of the open source definition:

https://opensource.org/osd

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

This is why Elasticsearch and Kibana are no longer open source; you have a choice of two proprietary licenses if you want to use their version.



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