Comment by mananaysiempre
1 day ago
Highlights (emphasis mine):
> Open source maintainers can request a free license by emailing safe@erlang-solutions.com and including a link to their [GitHub] repository. Once approved, we provide a SAFE license for one month or up to a year, depending on the project’s needs, at no cost.
The legalese[1] (is incoherent but apparently) does not pass the Curl test, that is, the maintainer of Curl—who gets money by providing commercial support for his completely FOSS project—wouldn’t be allowed to use this had it applied to him:
> You can only use SAFE for open-source software. Any commercial use is prohibited.
[1] https://www.erlang-solutions.com/policies/safe-for-open-sour...
The point you're trying to make about Curl is more unclear than anything in that license.
It’s a reference to a four-year-old discussion[1] in the Curl bug tracker about Travis CI introducing a similar prohibition on commercial activity in relation to open-source projects. The more general point is, fully open-source projects that earn money via support contracts are few and precious, and it’s a dick move to cut them off.
[1] https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7150