There are licences like this already

• https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:THL-1.1
• https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:ANTI-1.4
• https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:HESSLA

None of which have ever caught on, and none of which are open source.

You would also be making it potentially illegal to use in many countries.

They shoot down literally every petition.

Honestly, between this and not all the modules being open source I would personally avoid it, seen too many projects openbait and then go “open core”.

I think this is designed for that https://github.com/vroland/epdiy

Their guide still implies that you need to pay a fee to unlock an API key before you can flash a new firmware.

How they plan to enforce that fee to unlock an API key when the firmware is supposedly open source I don’t know. When I looked over the source code it looked like it was being written to a log.