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It's a good model but only when it starts like that from the beginnig. How many developers have contributed to that open source because of the liberal orginal
by cowl 4y ago
It's a good model but only when it starts like that from the beginnig.
How many developers have contributed to that open source because of the liberal orginal license? Now they take all that work and make it commercial? Ok but in that case the rights should revert to the orginal contributors and the company should make licensing terms with them for the Commercial part.
Most of the controversies have been about this bait&switch Aproach.
- zajio1am 4y agoUnless all your contributors signed copyright assignment to you (or you have no external contributors), you cannot just restrict license this way for copyleft licenses.
- cowl 4y agoOfcourse the contributors have signed copyright assignment to you (that's mostly standard practice) but they have done so for a project that at the time was with the liberal license. It may not be illegal but it's certainly abusive to then switch licenses because chances are those would not have signed the copyright away for free for a commercial product in the first place.