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Fair Source License
- diffeomorphism 8y agoBob owns a company Bobsoft employing 50 people and can't use the software. He renames it Alphabob with two daughter companies Bobsoft and Bobworks each employing 25 people. He now can use the software. "Fair source" is proprietary freeware with pseudo-opensource flavor.
- gregknicholson 8y agoYeah, I don't understand what problem this is trying to solve. If you want to stop massive money-grabbing corporations from using your software for nefarious purposes, a strong copyleft like AGPL will ensure they release their improvements so the open source community can compete. Certain big companies avoid AGPL'd software because they don't want to play, which seems to be working as intended. “With open source, releasing source code and charging for the product is virtually impossible.” Red Hat would disagree.
- talltimtom 8y agoThat’s great theory... what is the chance that Apple will split into a gazillian 25 person companies just to skimp on minor licensing costs?