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Well, nothing "curiously" about it, it's because "FOSS" is a label we explicitly made to refer to the forms of IP where this is absent, where it's free as speec
by PeterisP 4y ago
Well, nothing "curiously" about it, it's because "FOSS" is a label we explicitly made to refer to the forms of IP where this is absent, where it's free as speech and they don't need to ask your permission to run the code for any purpose. You definitely can have a royalty scheme that ensures you get a cut if someone's profiting from your work, that's a reasonable desire, but then we wouldn't say that your work is FOSS.
- specialist 4y agoWhat about dual licensing? That's already pretty common. I'd like someone smart about these things to create the boilerplate royalties license complimenting, or compatible with, or whatever, some FOSS licenses. Say Apache License v2.0. IIRC, it was ElasticSearch that recently tried to thread this needle. Maybe I'm overthinking this. I tried to read up about royalties, find some model language, etc. Alas, IANAL, so got lost pretty quickly.