There are two points of popular open source mythology this post will share my experience with:

• People won’t use your project if you don’t use an Open Source Initiative-approved license
• People won’t contribute to to your project if you don’t use an Open Source Initiative-approved license

Many people have ideas about how society should be like and what must be done to change institutions and to work for a revolution. But this is not enough. Often these ideas do not conform to reality and if they do conform to reality there is only one way to test them: Try to put them to work and see if they succeed. Testing our ideas in concrete work is the only way we will ever know if they are correct.

A program is educational source (edu source) software if:

• The source code is available to individuals for personal use, modification, learning and reference

komorebi is edu source software, and the Komorebi License is an edu source license.[1]

Any software license which ensures access to source code fulfils the criteria to be considered an edu source license.

[1]: In addition to being an edu source license, the Komorebi License is also a firewall license, which serves to protect an individual’s freedom to refuse by default.

You’re likely here because you’ve discovered that I generally refuse to use open source licenses for my popular software projects, and you want to engage me in a discussion.

Here is a list of things I consider before accepting an invitation from someone to engage in a discussion about why I do not use open source software licenses.

• Skin in the game - if you have not created, released, and maintained publicly developed software with a user base of a non-trivial size (10k+ users), you’re better off discussing software licensing in the abstract with others whose only hands-on experience is discussing software licensing in the abstract
• Acknowledgment of open source licensing’s genocide problem
• Proposals to address open source licensing’s genocide problem - if you do not consider open source licensing’s genocide problem to be a issue, then we don’t have any common ground for discussion