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I think it is a great idea, you can charge when people use it in production and it reverts to oss on a specific date. I worked at a startup and companies would
by teddyuk 10y ago
I think it is a great idea, you can charge when people use it in production and it reverts to oss on a specific date.
I worked at a startup and companies would want us to put a version of the software into escrow and were wary of us going under, giving them something like this would have been perfect.
- justincormack 10y agoAs was pointed out elsewhere, it becomes GPL, which is not normally unencumbered enough for escrow, where you get unrestricted rights. You also want them immediately on failure, not after the timeout. So it doesnt work well for this use case.
- nabla9 10y agoGPL works perfectly with dual licensing. If you want unencumbered, you pay for commercial license.
- cowsandmilk 10y agoBut that's the point, top parent was suggesting this as a replacement for commercial escrow. Most people wanting commercial escrow would not be satisfied with this.
- montywi 10y agoI have been in several business discussions regarding source code in escrow and in all of them they have agreed that having the code released as BSL or eventually Open Source would be ok with them. After all, companies using your software wants just to be sure that they can continue to use it as before if you stop supporting it. For this purpose BSL works perfectly as a default. If they need more, then you make an explicit contract just for them where you give them more rights to the software.
- markkit 10y agoIt becomes GPL in case of their MaxScale product, other businesses adopting BSL license can choose a different delayed license, for example MIT.