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We need more timebomb licenses. The company owns your code for X years, to which they can gain market advantage and make their money. After X years, it goes MIT
by tetris11 2y ago
We need more timebomb licenses. The company owns your code for X years, to which they can gain market advantage and make their money. After X years, it goes MIT/GPL.
It benefits the coder, it benefits society, and the company gets that sweet temporary window of profitability over their competitors as they always have since time immemorial.
- palata 2y agoIf you can convince your company to do that, you can probably convince them to use a copyleft license, I would think.
- tetris11 2y agoThe benefit of the timebomb is that it gives a company half a decade or more to make their money. If it was copyleft from the getgo, then it'd be hard for the company to compete at all, which is a position I can understand.
- palata 2y ago> then it'd be hard for the company to compete at all It depends on the codebase obviously, but you would have to prove that. On the other hand, if you open source it properly you may get contributions, which is valuable for the company.