The Commons Clause will destroy open source

An alarmist title, I know, but it’s true. If the Commons clause were to be adopted by all open source projects, they would cease to be open source1, and therefore the Commons clause is trying to destroy open source. When this first appeared I spoke out about it in discussion threads around the net, but didn’t think anyone would take it seriously. Well, yesterday, some parts of Redis became proprietary software. Under both the OSI and FSF definitions. The Commons Clause removes freedom 0 of the four essential freedoms. ↩