The 'Commons Clause' License Condition

Not a full 'license'.
A license condition drafted that applies a narrow, minimal-form commercial restriction on top of an existing open source license.

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November 5, 2018

Fossa, Inc

Not a full license, clause to a license like the MIT or BSD

Not a full license, a clause to add to another license like the MIT or BSD

The Software is provided to you by the Licensor under the License, as defined below, subject to the following condition.

Using Free Software licenses everyone can compete you to sell your software.

Without limiting other conditions in the License, the grant of rights under the License will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software.

Only you are licensed to sell your software or services that are substantially based on your software

For purposes of the foregoing, “Sell” means practicing any or all of the rights granted to you under the License to provide to third parties, for a fee or other consideration (including without limitation fees for hosting or consulting/ support services related to the Software), a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software. Any license notice or attribution required by the License must also include this Commons Clause License Condition notice.

    Software: [name software]

    License: [i.e. Apache 2.0]

    Licensor: [ABC company]