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It's high-time for a "reasonable compensation" clause in hobbyists' open-source software licenses I think. Something to the effect of: "if you're using my labou
by polotics 1y ago
It's high-time for a "reasonable compensation" clause in hobbyists' open-source software licenses I think.
Something to the effect of: "if you're using my labour of love to make millions, gimme one of these millions..."
- illiac786 1y agoThe compensation should be in code not in money…
- watwut 1y agoYou can make such license, there is no issue with that. You just cant call it "MIT License" after that.
- ThrowawayR2 1y agoYes, it's called "becoming proprietary software" because what are you going to do to get that oh so reasonable compensation? Create your own billing department and manage tax payments on your revenue? Hire a legal team to create and enforce your license? Sic the BSA (apparently they still exist after all these years!) to threaten to audit organizations who aren't paying? Fend off lawsuits from users, competitors, and patent trolls? (Once you start collecting money, other people inevitably want a piece of it.)
- abracadaniel 1y agoI’d also like to see a license which prohibits any for-profit use. A don’t charge others for something you got for free license.
- pabs3 1y agoThere are lots of those, CC-NC to start with.
- pabs3 1y agoThat probably wouldn't meet the Open Source Definition. https://opensourcedefinition.org/ https://opensourcedefinition.org/