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Will a licensing model that mandates companies who have a certain amount of revenue to pay up for using the OSS, work? Are there any licenses like this?
by vijaybritto 7y ago
Will a licensing model that mandates companies who have a certain amount of revenue to pay up for using the OSS, work?
Are there any licenses like this?
- kemitchell 7y agoPolyform Project (https://polyformproject.org/ https://polyformproject.org/) just announced draft terms for a suite of standardized, noncommercial, source-available licenses, like Creative Commons' CC-BY-NC-*, but for software. The draft includes a "Small Business" exception that gives companies below certain headcount and revenue figures a free pass.
- vijaybritto 7y agoThis is nice!
- eeZah7Ux 7y agoUnfortunately a license cannot do that without turning into closed source. AGPL is still the best option to mitigate the SaaS issue without fully solving it. We need new models that don't depend on limiting access to software (or books, music...)
- davemp 7y agoUnity3D has this sort of license, though it's not OSS last time I checked.