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People have been monetizing open source under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and other licenses for decades. It’s possible.
by mfer 4y ago
People have been monetizing open source under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and other licenses for decades. It’s possible.
- Gigachad 4y agoModern hosting platforms have made this less viable. AWS, Azure, and GCP will just integrate this as a one click service at a cheaper price than the actual development company can afford and drain all of the profits out.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoThat is why nice folks made sspl license. Cloud providers do not like sspl while everyone else doesn't care about it
- josephcsible 4y agoThe SSPL is a proprietary, closed-source license. The actual FOSS license to deal with that problem is the AGPL.
- Gigachad 4y agoAGPL does nothing to help here. AGPL simply requires you release the source for any changes. AWS is still free to host and sell the software without contributing any funds back to the project.
- Kbelicius 4y agoSo what you are saying is that it helps by requiring AWS to contribute any man hours(that cost money) they've spent on the project.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License What are you on about? How is sspl closed source???
- josephcsible 4y agoThe very article you linked contains the citation for that: https://opensource.org/node/1099 https://opensource.org/node/1099
- Gigachad 4y agoIt’s not closed source but it’s also rejected by the major open source institutions and violates the OSI definition of open source which is what most people based off of.