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		mtmail on Aug 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Open sourcing my project, how to enforce t... If you make it a requirement to spend 5 dollars per month for using the product, then I'd say it doesn't fit open licenses. If you want to enforce the license in a structured way you might as well sell (a subscription to) the product. You can of course donate any profit you make.

nfc on Aug 27, 2016 [–]

well, I was calling it open source in the sense that it could allow the same kind of collaborative development that open source allows.

Any company or individual could see it, modify it and sell it.

Perhaps it's not open source by some definitions of it but it seems to me that it shares some of its characteristics

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