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You might want to look into the "commons clause". It is a non opensource addition to a license, but is relative simple.

You will not find an OSI license with the protections you want because it is a violation of open source principles.



Yeah, the Common Clause license is pretty close to what I want, I'm just concerned with the SaaS offering in one of the examples in the license:

"Let’s apply the example to Commons Clause licensed software. Commons Clause-licensed Redis Graph is a graph database module for BSD-licensed Redis. Can you create applications with Redis Graph and distribute and/or sell them? Yes. Can you redistribute Redis Graph along with your application? Yes. Can you offer that application as SaaS and charge for it? Yes. Can you take Redis Graph itself, call it ElastiGraph and offer it as SaaS and charge for it. No."

It could be that the application developed with Redis Graph is totally different to Redis Graph so SaaS offering is allowed. I will check this further, thanks for your suggestion.




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