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Ask HN: When an open source project is purchased, who get's the money?
I was wondering when an open source project is purchased, who get's the money? Have you ever heard of contributors getting some of the money? Wouldn't that be cool!
- informatimago 11y agoYou have to define what you mean by "open source" and "project is purchased". How do you "purchase" a project??? If you buy some open source software, or some free software, the money obviously goes to the person who sells it. Free software has a copyright owner. This copyright may be traded. However, there is little point of purchasing the copyright of free software, since the only thing that buys you, is the right to distribute the software under a non-free license. The existing copies are still distribuable under the old free license. Guess which copies the contributors of free software will continue contributing to.
- titusblair 11y agoFor example MySQL and other open source projects, let's say in the future Hadoop is acquired, who get's the money?