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> Now they need the relicensing in order for the business model to remain viable. This is exactly what the parent is saying though. They're going through this
by staticassertion 5y ago
> Now they need the relicensing in order for the business model to remain viable.
This is exactly what the parent is saying though. They're going through this process to ensure that their business remains viable and they can continue to build and support the project.
- judofyr 5y agoI still think this sentence here is not quite precise enough: > All of the most important software of our lifetime is going through this relicensing effort as the creators attempt to capture the value of what it enables. To me this sounds like the relicensing is done so that a few programmers finally can get paid for their hard labor while maintaining critical software we're all using. What's actually happening here is that some creators have convinced a few investors that they'll be able to give a huge return on invest by building up a sales department around the product. And now the realize that they're not able to accomplishing that with their original license. It's a perfectly acceptable business strategy, but it's not necessarily the only way of running an open source project. I'm still hoping that we (the open source community) can find even better ways of ensuring high-quality software remain open source without being so dependent on current mindset of investors.
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