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I suppose not much. So the licence does succeed in forcing software to go open source after two years, but before that, it still effectively forces the maintain
by James_K 3y ago
I suppose not much. So the licence does succeed in forcing software to go open source after two years, but before that, it still effectively forces the maintainers of forks to put in an equal amount of effort to the holder of the licence. This makes a fork much harder since it would require a development team equal in size to the official one two years to bring it up to date.
- layer8 3y agoThat’s only if you care about the same additions that the original developers do. However, a fork is usually motivated by a disagreement on the trajectory. Or you don’t actually want to fork, but only want to monetize their work SaaS-style, which is exactly what the FSL is intended to prevent.