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Isn't this problem easily and simply solved by dual licensing GPL/commercial? If Daniel wanted something in return for his code, he should not have MIT license

• ozim 5y ago
  Daniel is doing quite well I believe as he manages to get some money from corporations. I gave him as an example of ubiquitous code used by huge corporations, mostly without paying for it. So don't fixate on single person, take look from a perspective. What is the article about? It is about contributor that does not want his code to be included somewhere and licensing does not work for him. So earning money on OSS is also not *simply solved* by dual licensing GPL/commercial. There are multiple reasons why not. Corporations or companies can't just simply pay some random dude from the internet and often they will just not even think about it. But they can simply use OSS code as easy as downloading it form github. Running a company to chase those corporations down, well that is not something you want to spend time on. Setting up legal entity for most projects will not even make financial sense. That levy fixes that and fixes problem of setting a company by OSS contributors as they would be paid just like artists in "levy" scheme.