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@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno It is a non-commercial license. Restricting commercial use is a usage restriction, which makes the software non-free according to both the FSF and OSI.

Louis wants to die on his hill by saying "this is good actually", because in his narrow worldview non-commercial means that "consumers" will be "free".

I do not look at the world in such a narrow worldview where there's only "consumers" and "corporations". Real life is a lot more complicated.

Sure this blocks large corporations like Google from using the software, you will achieve that goal, but by making the license non-commercial you also block the following people from using the software:

* Freelancers
* Small businesses
* Startups
* Consultants
And the list goes on.

This is obviously a huge problem and this is why real free (and open source) software always allows commercial use, there's no freedom without it.