Custom license incompatible with every major free software OS distribution

[pipatron]

Hi! I was browsing for open and free OBD-II related projects on github and came across OBDium, but I was taken aback by the strange custom license.

I'm worried that the license more or less guarantees that this project can never be part of one of the major free software operating systems. Even GNU/FSF (the most zealous of the free-software advocates!) consider these licenses non-free (for example search for commercial on https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html)

A lot of people have tried to tack on some variations of non-commercial clause but it prevents for example Raspberry Pi to sell a pre-installed SD-card with Debian or someone from selling a laptop pre-installed with linux software and that's one of the reasons the licenses are "forbidden".

I'm not going to advocate for a change, maybe you have great personal reasons to use such a license, I'm just putting it out here because it would be nice with more free software OBD tools but I don't think I would personally use something that can't be packaged.

[provrb]

Thank you for the comment. After some further consideration and seeing the project's uproar and small success, I have decided to switch from this custom license to the GNU GPL 3.0 license in 8102f80. If you have anymore questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to add onto the discussion!

[pipatron]

Cool, sounds great! I'm happy as long as it's one of the "standard" licenses because it makes it a lot easier for everyone. GPL is probably the closest to non-commercial without actually spelling it out, so I'm sure that's a good choice here.