• @Lmaydev
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    862 months ago

    But when open source projects go dual license to try and get paid people lose their minds.

    • @[email protected]
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      212 months ago

      This!!!

      This!!

      People, stop celebrating “freeing” software of maintainers that want to prevent being exploited.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      Because often what the sort of folks ideologically predisposed towards Free Software actually want is for users to donate voluntarily, or for governments to give maintainers grants or stipends, or something like that.

      • @Lmaydev
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        112 months ago

        They wouldn’t have to if xz had a dual license.

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          But none of these for profit companies that are dependent upon xz have funneled any of their gains in there?

    • Richard
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      -102 months ago

      Because that’s a bad not even a solution.

      • qaz
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        362 months ago

        What about a license that would require every company with a market cap above 25 B that (indirectly) uses the software to contribute X amount (like $1000 a year) of revenue back?

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          I think if that caught on then companies would call it undue burden to sift through all the dependencies they use to make such small payments.

          It is a difficult problem. But on the face of it your suggestion seems very reasonable.

          • @[email protected]
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            132 months ago

            Maybe that force them to just donate to every dependency, probably cheaper on their level. And better for project.

          • qaz
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            GitHub has a tool built-in to show all dependencies, it’s not that hard to write a little script to check the LICENSE files in the repositories. I’m sure one of the biggest companies in the world has the ability to do that.

          • @Lmaydev
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            22 months ago

            If dual licensing was standard the software that uses things like xz would pay down the line so everything was funded.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          I mean this is already a thing to certain degrees right? Virtualization platforms I use both are free for personal use, but not business use, or at least certain feature package use isn’t permitted. What’s the difference? Putting the software under a different license/eula?

          • qaz
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            22 months ago

            Yes, but the proposed license would also be free for businesses except for the largest in the world.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              Why limit it? If you’re actively making money, or you are a licensed business attempting to do so, people actively helping you build business deserve to be compensated. If a developer just happened to live in your area and said “I could make your business better by making this thing for you,” would they be worth hiring? What’s the saying, socialize the resources, privatize the profits? Size << Intent