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Open source licenses requiring minimum price.
- _delirium 17y agoAn intriguing idea. As someone pointed out, it wouldn't really be "open source", since it includes a restriction on reuse that all the major definitions of free software and open source (the FSF's, Debian's, OSI's) would considered impermissible. But it could be called something else. It's sort of the flip-side of the "non-commercial use only" licenses: commercial-use only, with a definition of what minimum level constitutes sufficiently commercial use. One practical problem is that it seems it'd only work within relatively stable, narrowly defined markets. The specified minimum price may make no sense if someone takes the code and uses it to make an app in a different market, or on a different platform.