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The PolyForm Shield license prohibits competition with the original project, but then goes on to define "competition"

> Goods and services compete even when provided free of charge

If you host your project on Github under this license and I fork it, then my Github page is competing with yours and I am therefore in violation.


Please read the license terms carefully.

Distribution of the source code, modified or unmodified, would not be considered competition. On the contrary, it is an explicitly granted right. So, for example, forking on GitHub is allowed.

Distribution License

The licensor grants you an additional copyright license to distribute copies of the software. Your license to distribute covers distributing the software with changes and new works permitted by Changes and New Works License.


I did read it carefully, and provided thoughtful feedback.

> Any purpose is a permitted purpose, except for providing any product that competes with the software or any product the licensor or any of its affiliates provides using the software.

> Goods and services compete even when provided free of charge. If you market a product as a practical substitute for the software or another product, it definitely competes.

If I use your software and find a bug, I am prohibited from hosting a fork with a fix for the bug on Github as it would clearly be a practical substitute for the original.




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