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How to Charge for your Open Source (2015)
- phendrenad2 5y agoThis just shifts the problem. > The AGPL requires users to open source any software which uses your library; businesses will pay to avoid it. This is exactly what we want. Or what if, you know, they go use some other open-source project, a competitor of yours, that isn't AGPL-licensed? It's a prisoner's dilemma where everyone has to agree to use AGPL, or companies won't pay to use any AGPL software. And that isn't going to happen, because many open-source developers do it for other tangible benefits (resume padding, power & authority in the community, a social group, a hobby, etc)