Because the #GPL #License text is added to the top and the #CommonsClause is added afterwards #github considers the project #GPLv3 software.

I’m amazed GitHub doesn’t has better licensing monitoring tools. This makes automated license tracking pretty iffy in my book.

"draft #CommonsClause"

The #CommonsClause pollutes the #FOSS #commons. It creates new hazards for software users to navigate.

It's /especially/ confusing when nonsensically combined with a #GPL family license like #AGPLv3.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource
https://github.com/thecodingmachine/workadventure/issues/2317

One that comes to mind is FOSSA. They're a venture capital backed startup that offers "Audit-Grade Open Source Dependency Protection".

They also are the originators of the "#CommonsClause" #OpenSource license rider that adds confusing restrictions that make software no longer Open Source.
https://commonsclause.com/

We need to talk licenses. Recently discovered #commonsclause through the #n8n project (big fan). I'm quite ideological but I really dig the pragmatism behind this license. The code is still #opensource, accessible and extendible. That's what I want from a product I need to trust. If the owner wants my contributions but doesn't want me making money from it… I understand that! Yet I read a lot of criticism about this license.

What am I not seeing?

@adfeno @strypey @snowdrift

I agree, those non-FLO incompatible terms are problematic. I/we support *neither*. But do notice that #CommonsClause and #Copyfarleft are at least different motivations. The former is meant specifically to *encourage* and enable proprietary licensing (while still having FLO something), while the latter is *sometimes* used by those who would like to offer the capitalists nothing at all, not even via a proprietary license.

But either harms the FLO commons we have.

Wow. That #commonsclause is a terrible thing. I sincerely hope nobody adopts it. It's also deceptively named because it is literally about LIMITING who can use software, not expanding it.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/aug/22/commons-clause/