I tried a couple license finders and I even looked into the OSI database but I could not find a license that works pretty much like agpl but requiring payment (combined 1% of revenue per month, spread evenly over all FOSS software, if applicable) if one of these is true:

  • the downstream user makes revenue (as in “is a company” or gets donations)
  • the downstream distributor is connected to a commercial user (e.g. to exclude google from making a non profit to circumvent this license)

I ask this because of the backdoor in xz and the obviously rotten situation in billion dollar companies not kicking their fair share back to the people providing this stuff.

So, if something similar exists, feel free to let me know.

Thanks for reading and have a good one.

  • Drew
    2•3 months ago

    The old version will still be available under whatever license it was released with

    • @mark
      1•3 months ago

      Sure but new versions are released pretty often, which essentially means they can change their license whenever they want.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•3 months ago

        See the current Redis situation, or Mongo a little while ago, among others. Originally open source, then at a certain point they changed to a source-available/more restricted license. The final open source license releases have been forked and now maintained as an alternative