David Heinemeier Hansson

The O'Saasy License is a new open source license modeled after MIT but reserves commercial SaaS rights for the copyright holder. It aims to encourage more production-grade code to be shared publicly for learning purposes while allowing creators to monetize their work through hosted services. The license is available at osaasy.dev and is being used for Fizzy, enabling developers to view, learn from, fix bugs, and self-host the software while the original creators retain exclusive rights to offer it as a commercial service.

The O'Saasy License

This license should be called Source Available. Not Open Source.
O’Saasy violates the item 6 on the <a href="https://opensource.org/osd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Open Source Definition</a>.

As explained in various posts, not really open source or free license.

Any innovation on the legal side of things is welcome. Diversity is its own sort of freedom and another type of option like this may very well tip someone towards investing their life into a project that they otherwise wouldn’t. Respect and gratitude.

Completely fair.
Open source doesn’t mean free

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