alt Hacker News> No licensee or downstream recipient may use the Software (including any modified or derivative versions) to directly compete with the original Licensor by offering it to third parties as a hosted, managed, or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product or cloud service where the primary value of the service is the functionality of the Software itself.
No thanks. These “almost-but-not-quite-FOSS” licenses are a blight.
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I don't see the issue - the creator is reserving the right to create their own paid hosted version?
The confusing thing for me related to that was Try Free which leads me to look for pricing. But with only Try free I get suspicious of even private or small team.
If it’s free for use. Try is a confusing term.
Off topic, I’d really wish any service or product with tiers would have pricing in a discoverable way.
Some will argue that it is Open Source. But Open Source came from commercial interests against Free Software.
It's clearly not free software, since the user freedom is restricted.
It's not libre, since that also refers to freedoms.
It's not really Open Source.
Source-Available has been used to describe this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software