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Discussion on: License to restrict too many forks

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JasperHorn

I think this will be hard to achieve. There are a lot of reasons for this, including things such as derivatives that might run on other platforms (possibly without a screen).

My advice would be to choose between two options. Either, go closed source (but free to use) if you want to keep control, or go open source (using a traditional license) and give up that control knowing that people might fork your project a lot.

(Of course, unless your project gets really big, the number of forks - and their scope - will probably be limited in practice.)

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wolfiton

Thanks @jasperhorn , I will keep your suggestion in my mind