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Re:Commons Clause by sciurus on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:27PM (#17815479)
Who else can we expect to see adopting the Commons Clause?
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Re:Commons Clause by mindcrime on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:10PM (#17815703)
Pretty much either "nobody" or "the set of companies who want their projects forked and promoted by somebody else".
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Re:Commons Clause by XiZhao on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @01:37AM (#17816563)
If a project has that wide of a contribution base, then the Commons Clause wouldn’t be needed in the first place. I think that’s the problem.
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Re:Commons Clause by hashrate on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:36AM (#17817256)
IMO 100% of ventured backed Open Source project will adopt this licence.

Just to name a few :

- Elastic

- Docker

- CockRoachDB

This licence is a disguised "Oracle" intellectual property.

This what Oracle has been doing for years and bring them billions in revenue.

It ensure that one way or another you'll pay $$$ to the vendor of the tech.

Most of these companies quoted above are not profitable and are trying to find a way to be profitable.

With this licence it allows them to charge $$$ and to have full control over the IP for and become the sole allowed provider for consulting / support / training and basically anything that is related to this technology.

This is proprietary software with an "unlimited trial" edition and source code hosted on Github.

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