Hector Martin

I've always been annoyed how Linux distros lump non-commercial-use-allowed-software into the "non-free" category when it's not stopping me doing anything at all, it's just stopping faceless corporations doing stuff. They're different things.

Um, "non-commercial-use-allowed" most definitely stops me from doing things with it. I need to make a living somehow. There's a good reason for Freedom 0 to be part of the free software definition. Remember free != free, English is just a shitty language with overloaded words.

Are you talking about software _you_ wrote yourself, in which case you would apply the restriction to your users and not yourself as the copyright holder? I'm talking about software other people wrote where I have no need to resell it.

"Commercial use" doesn't (just) mean reselling. "No commercial use" means I cannot use the software for the purposes of making money. E.g. I can't use it to work on a project for a client, or to work on my own software that I intend to sell by itself.