> use by individual hobbyists, students, universities, non-profit organizations, or businesses with less than 200 employees is allowed, and all other usage is considered commercial and thus requires a business relationship with Anaconda
Wow this is so deliberately ambiguous about universities with more than 200 employees. Shameful.
TLDR - we are working to clean up this language to leave it clear that educational institutions are exempt, and that these commercial terms do not apply to third-party channels hosted at anaconda.org (which includes conda-forge).
You’ve had the existing language up for years. Your licensing regime is a dark pattern torpedoing anything Good about Anaconda. Anaconda is threatening academic researchers for back usage in something those researchers thought was free.
Show us don’t tell us. I’d love to not have to continue the rip and replace job ahead.
Edit: this linkedin response sums it up well. Not certain what guarantee you will make to research institutions’ leaders that is going to lift those blocks.
However, please tell this to your sales/legal teams: the nature of their approaches has been somewhat poisoning the well. If leadership’s first encounter with a piece of software is: "you are in legal trouble", the reaction you're going to get is: "remove and block that legally dangerous piece of software at once", rather than "oh yes we should license it". We do buy licenses for software, we view it as giving back, but how the offering is first presented matters.
Wow this is so deliberately ambiguous about universities with more than 200 employees. Shameful.