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It's typical for small open source teams. It's hard to make money with open source. My suggestion wold be to use AGPLv3 license and sell commercial licenses to
by Nokinside 8y ago
It's typical for small open source teams. It's hard to make money with open source.
My suggestion wold be to use AGPLv3 license and sell commercial licenses to improve the income situation.
- Investogician 8y agoFor a front-end library like this, wouldn't regular GPLv3 do the same thing? I thought AGPL was mainly for server stuff.
- pookeh 8y agoYou can have a GPL-licensed SaaS that charges you for stuff
- throw2016 8y agoAmazon, Google and hundreds of others show otherwise. They have tens of billions of dollars in revenue from open source. Open source is probably supporting revenue in the hundreds of billions now. However without closing the gap between the creators and monetizers this model can't sustain itself and the party will eventually crash.
- Nokinside 8y agoAs I said, I was referring to small companies. Amazon or Google don't open source the main software they use make money from. Only supporting infrastructure software and research. For a small company it's possible to open source the main product if you use GPL or AGPL.