Software Below the Poverty Line

Re:Software Below the Poverty Line by vijaybritto on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:18AM (#20175672)

Will a licensing model that mandates companies who have a certain amount of revenue to pay up for using the OSS, work?

Are there any licenses like this?

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Re:Software Below the Poverty Line by kemitchell on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:38AM (#20175883)

Polyform Project (https://polyformproject.org/) just announced draft terms for a suite of standardized, noncommercial, source-available licenses, like Creative Commons' CC-BY-NC-*, but for software. The draft includes a "Small Business" exception that gives companies below certain headcount and revenue figures a free pass.

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Re:Software Below the Poverty Line by vijaybritto on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:47PM (#20177568)

This is nice!

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Re:Software Below the Poverty Line by eeZah7Ux on Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:24PM (#20176367)

Unfortunately a license cannot do that without turning into closed source. AGPL is still the best option to mitigate the SaaS issue without fully solving it.

We need new models that don't depend on limiting access to software (or books, music...)

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Re:Software Below the Poverty Line by davemp on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:30PM (#20176965)

Unity3D has this sort of license, though it's not OSS last time I checked.

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