My solution has been even simpler --- I just use a reel mower (on an admittedly small lawn, ~1/3rd of an acre) --- it's a decent workout, esp. when I strive to finish quickly.

(the one time I asked my son to cut the grass he broke the reel mower)

It's worth noting that the project is CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 however it comes with a notice that other licenses are available if you content them directly. So it may not be open source under the strict definition however the project is also not staunchly anti-commercial.

> Feel free to use the design in your private/educational projects, but don't try to sell the design or products based on it without getting my consent first. The idea here is to share knowledge, not to enable others to simply sell my work. Thank you for understanding.

I'm sick of open source purism.

These people are giving you code. You can use it, you just can't compete with them using the tool they made and that they're giving you for free.

The reason people want this last freedom is because they want to compete with the authors using the authors' own hard work. That's really lame.

Open source purism - especially for non-viral MIT and BSD licenses - is how Google and Microsoft and Amazon stole from the commons and turned it against us.

Google Chrome fucked up the web. AWS lifted Redis and Elasticsearch and makes hundreds of millions a quarter on managed versions, whereas the authors see none of that upside.

Or WP Engine, which basically lifted WordPress wholesale and gives absolutely nothing back.

We should all adopt FAIR SOURCE [1].

Fair source prevents people from taking your hard work and competing with you, but it enables your audience and your customers to use your software and modify it without restriction EXCEPT that they can't turn around and sell it in a way that competes with you.

The biggest abusers of open source certainly have a metric horse load of unavailable sources.

I 100% commend CC-BY-SA-NC and other fair source licenses. These are sustainable efforts.

If you're going to use open source, at least make it AGPL / GPLv3 so your contribution doesn't get metabolized into a completely non-free product.

[1] https://fair.io/

You wouldn't anthropomorphize a lawn mower would you?