Is there a software license which acts open, but keeps out mega corps?

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I'd like to license my software to maximize availability for average users and small businesses, but I don't want to do free labor for massive $200+ million dollar corporations.Are there any software licenses out there that achieve something like this? I know there's some legal precedents which make sliding scale approaches difficult, but perhaps someone with strong legal knowledge has found a loophole.Thanks

lowcodetv · Accepted Answer

Elastic Search developed a custom license to prevent strip-mining by AWS. Other companies soon followed, including Timescale, which produced different licenses in 2018, then 2020, for different purposes to address needs at appropriate stages. Their write-up on the process addresses other licenses that might be of interest to you:https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-we-are-building-an-open-...

fsflover · Answer

This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

seph-reed · Answer

Keeping a list of things I've found:Anti-Capitalist (https://anticapitalist.software/) - Only usable by non-profits, individuals, etc. Too extreme.AGPL ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License) - Requires all other code in a project to be GPL. Basically just GPL with one less loophole for SASS.A bunch of other licenses (https://choosealicense.com/licenses/)Asked about it on legal stack-exchange (https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/57914/is-it-possible...)Spite license (https://github.com/voynix/spite-license) - Humorous and potentially could work. But it's mostly just a joke.