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Exactly. A lot of the whining can be avoided by a dual AGPL3 (maybe GPL3) plus proprietary "call for a quote and contract negotiations" license. Most big cloud
by corty 6y ago
Exactly. A lot of the whining can be avoided by a dual AGPL3 (maybe GPL3) plus proprietary "call for a quote and contract negotiations" license. Most big cloud shops will avoid AGPL, so they will pay, the rest will be as happy with AGPL as with BSD or Apache.
- cardanome 6y agoMostly agreed but in the case of Elastic against Amazon that would not have helped much. Amazon has no issues contributing back and could probably cope with AGPL. They don't need a advantage in features, they can just destroy any competition with their market advantages. So AGPL is a good first step but maybe we need even stricter license against monopolistic corporations.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoThat is not open source vis-à-vis closed source; that is copyleft vis-à-vis permissive both of which are open source.