Re: Proposal of new new open-source license for graphics (TERO-GL-1.0)

On Wed, Nov 12, 2025, at 06:31, Morten Fruelund via License-discuss wrote:
> As a last resort, we would like to ask you if you see any way that we can allow the licensed materials (in the form of graphics) to be used freely with the sole exception of not (necessarily) letting anyone make functioning, physical copies of the products represented by the graphics and still get the license approved by the OSI?
> 

This would be roughly similar to publishing software (source code) under a license which disallows distribution of devices containing the software. I am pretty sure this has been attempted before, but even if it hasn't it would fail the OSD compliance test in my opinion (IANAL, of course).

In general attempting to license something using an OSI-approved/OSD-compliant license but also making it a 'product' on its own will inevitably result in conflict. As has been said many times in may places, 'open source' is not a business model, although publishing materials under open source licenses can be part of an effective business model if the business model is based on additional services or products which supplement the open source materials.

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