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The hardest part is: if Hibernate came with a license that was not completely open and free, would it ever have been adopted as the standard? Probably not. So y
by emmett 17y ago
The hardest part is: if Hibernate came with a license that was not completely open and free, would it ever have been adopted as the standard? Probably not. So you can't really charge developers directly.
What if companies that make money using open source software created an endowment that rewarded developers who produced widely used open source software?
- stephen 17y agoEndowment isn't bad. But then who decides where/who the money gets paid to? Does the money go to the copyright holder (e.g. the Apache organization for anything org.apache, JBoss/Redhat for anything org.jboss) or the individual developers? If individuals, how do you partition the money, by LOC, in-project voting/ranking of team member contributions?