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I tell people who want to make money off of FOSS to license as GPLv3 or AGPLv3. Offer a commercial license for money. Some people see megacorps' aversion to GPL
by R0b0t1 5y ago
I tell people who want to make money off of FOSS to license as GPLv3 or AGPLv3. Offer a commercial license for money. Some people see megacorps' aversion to GPL and license as BSD, trying to believe that megacorp will come along and decide to hire them or pay them a retainer, despite the many instances of Amazon, Google, et al. ripping off some random permissively licensed project.
There was previously a post on HN about this.
- eecc 5y agoSo much this, well said. Only issue is with SASS strip-miners muscling you out of your commercial license space. On the one hand Amazon adoption certifies the success of your product, on the other it puts any ambition of financial return to rest.