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Talk to your lawyer. If you don't have a lawyer, your choice of license doesn't make any practical difference in terms of whether or not a bad actor will viola
by brudgers 4y ago
Talk to your lawyer.
If you don't have a lawyer, your choice of license doesn't make any practical difference in terms of whether or not a bad actor will violate the license terms.
I mean there's no GNU enforcement agency, if you license something GNU you can take a violation to court but nobody else will. And if someone else does, it will probably be thrown out for lack of standing.
Or to put it another way, the best license is the one you are interested in enforcing. If you are not interested in enforcing any license, then CC0. Otherwise, talk to your lawyer.
- michaelpjones 4y agoYou make a good point. I'm not sure I'd be in a position to enforce anything myself. I would be relying on larger companies to be too risk adverse to violate the license, hoping that they would pay for a commercial option instead.
- brudgers 4y agoIf you are going to sell a commercial license, having only a commercial license is the simplest thing that might work. If someone wants the source. Sell them a source code license developer by your attorney who can be paid with the proceeds of commercial license sales. And charge for source code access so you make money off it.