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Who else can we expect to see adopting the Commons Clause?
by sciurus 8y ago
Who else can we expect to see adopting the Commons Clause?
- mindcrime 8y agoPretty much either "nobody" or "the set of companies who want their projects forked and promoted by somebody else".
- XiZhao 8y agoIf a project has that wide of a contribution base, then the Commons Clause wouldn’t be needed in the first place. I think that’s the problem.
- hashrate 8y agoIMO 100% of ventured backed Open Source project will adopt this licence. Just to name a few : - Elastic - Docker - CockRoachDB This licence is a disguised "Oracle" intellectual property. This what Oracle has been doing for years and bring them billions in revenue. It ensure that one way or another you'll pay $$$ to the vendor of the tech. Most of these companies quoted above are not profitable and are trying to find a way to be profitable. With this licence it allows them to charge $$$ and to have full control over the IP for and become the sole allowed provider for consulting / support / training and basically anything that is related to this technology. This is proprietary software with an "unlimited trial" edition and source code hosted on Github.