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Originally Posted by nightpool
Please don't. These licenses are constructed the way they are for a reason, and made by lawyers who know what they're doing. Adding a clause that restricts the usage of the software goes directly against the FSF's Four Fundamental Freedoms:
Additionally, there are a lot of loopholes in a license like what was recommended, specifically that it is self-contradictory, as the GPL explicitly permits commercial use, and that you never define what constitutes commercial use, so its ambiguous.
For example, one of the terms of the CC-BY-NC license that covers commercial use:
As you can see, its a little more complicated then "you can't use it for commercial software"
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I can see where you're coming from. Honestly, there is no way an FRC team has the lawyers to properly do this though. The clause would just be there as a signal, it's not much legal protection.
And anyways, what kind of corporation would use FRC code? And what for?