I've been advocating for something similar:
> This software is free for any entity that does not contain material stakeholders (bond holders, debt holders, etc) that are billionaires. A yearly licence fee of $1m waives this requirement.
Something like that. I'm sick of wealth centralization. If a startup wants to use the software, great! Once Peter Thiel invests though it's $1m a year. My core beef with billionaires is that they do not pay their fair share in taxes. The push all their money into shell companies or park it overseas and we end up with doctors that actually save peoples lives paying double or triple the tax rate that the ultra wealthy pay.
Mine is pretending they're not freeloading. A close second is the performant persecution complex. Third might be the rationalist rhetoric about slippery slopes (eg anything less than Freedom Markets™ is socialism).
That’s the GPL, isn’t it? Version 3 was specifically created to close loopholes w.r.t. to that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization: “Tivoization is the creation of a system that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license (like the GPL), but uses hardware restrictions or digital rights management to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware“)
A $1B limit? no problem - "we'll just send this over to our little 500M subsidiary."
the root problem is the consumer doesn't care and there is a cultural lack of care and trust and humanity. I don't know of any solution to this but the problem runs extremely deep. In fact, there may be no cure, as these problems are noted as the cardinal sins the Christian bible documented and Dante' famously illustrated : Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride. Solve that and the rest comes easy.
> A $1B limit? no problem - "we'll just send this over to our little 500M subsidiary."
The new license can acknowledge this too
Another one I'd like to see is: