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Source available but with a pricing for commercial use seems to be the most sustainable way for open source (pun intended) though.
by ctxc 3y ago
Source available but with a pricing for commercial use seems to be the most sustainable way for open source (pun intended) though.
- api 3y agoBut that gets in the way of open source as free labor for giant companies.
- lsaferite 3y agoI feel like the license used on Llama covers that, right? Carve out an exclusion for large companies so they have to obtain a commercial license and let all the ones below that access it for free.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Carve out an exclusion for large companies so they have to obtain a commercial license And this is why open source means source available, look at the license. There are infinite variations between free software and classic source available.
- KolmogorovComp 3y agoYou can (and most likely should) still use a OSI-approved license if you want, such as AGPL/GPLv3, while providing the possibility of case-to-case commercial licenses. gifski [0] for example is a successful open-source project doing that. [0] https://gif.ski/license.html https://gif.ski/license.html
- BrianHenryIE 3y agoI just see now, there are two Gifskis, one Rust, one Swift. It's worth looking at the maintainer of the Swift one, he has 1000+ repos, many with 1000+ stars. * https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski * https://github.com/sindresorhus/Gifski https://github.com/sindresorhus/Gifski * https://github.com/sindresorhus https://github.com/sindresorhus
- nativeit 3y agoHe appears to be the original creator of the “Awesome X” repo: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
- KolmogorovComp 3y agoBoth gifski are maintained by @sindresorhus, as you can see by commit counts. (Even if he’s not the main maintainer of the swift version).