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There's two models that solve this. a) sell support contracts b) have contributors sign copyright agreements, license the project as GPL/AGPL, and then sell c
by astrange 1y ago
There's two models that solve this.
a) sell support contracts
b) have contributors sign copyright agreements, license the project as GPL/AGPL, and then sell commercial licenses for people who can't use that
- dochtman 1y agoNo, they don’t. Selling support contracts is actually hard. GPL/AGPL preclude widespread adoption (these days) — the grandparent explicitly mentioned “permissive” licenses.
- astrange 1y agoAll businesses are hard, but I don't think selling support is especially hard for one. The above two are how x264 development was funded, but it's also how Klara works for BSD and Igalia for web browsers.
- DanielHB 1y agoc) Open core model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model which seems to be by far the most common