The JSON License famously includes a provision stating that “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil”. This article explores why such provisions are not useful or meaningful in the greater software licensing conversation. “Evil” is largely part of the software licensing conversation today because of a much earlier line drawn in the sand by open source software licensing proponents demanding that compliant licenses permit use for “Evil” (and consequently, placing a hard restr...| LGUG2Z
There are two points of popular open source mythology this post will share my experience with: People won’t use your project if you don’t use an Open Source Initiative-approved license People won’t contribute to to your project if you don’t use an Open Source Initiative-approved license Many people have ideas about how society should be like and what must be done to change institutions and to work for a revolution. But this is not enough. Often these ideas do not conform to reality an...| LGUG2Z
A program is educational source (edu source) software if: The source code is available to individuals for personal use, modification, learning and reference komorebi is edu source software, and the Komorebi License is an edu source license.[1] Any software license which ensures access to source code fulfils the criteria to be considered an edu source license. [1]: In addition to being an edu source license, the Komorebi License is also a firewall license, which serves to protect an individual...| LGUG2Z
You’re likely here because you’ve discovered that I generally refuse to use open source licenses for my popular software projects, and you want to engage me in a discussion. Here is a list of things I consider before accepting an invitation from someone to engage in a discussion about why I do not use open source software licenses. Skin in the game - if you have not created, released, and maintained publicly developed software with a user base of a non-trivial size (10k+ users), you’re ...| LGUG2Z
I made $901.49 in my first month selling commercial use software licenses. This $901.49 came from 14 customers, 6 of whom purchased monthly license subscriptions and 8 of whom purchased annual license subscriptions. January 2025 sales overview My most popular piece of software, komorebi, is a tiling window manager for Windows, published under an educational source license which does not permit any kind of commercial use. At the beginning of 2025, I started offering dedicated individual commer...| LGUG2Z
People who make useful content and services intended for interactive human use available for free have written at length about the ongoing issues with AI crawlers scouring the web in an insatiable search for new training data. Some people are coming up with interesting technical solutions to the problems posed by AI crawlers, but I have ultimately opted for a much simpler solution: a paywall. Kullish is a project that I operated free of charge for all users from 2020 until January 2025.| LGUG2Z