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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by kd5bjo on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:18AM (#25032504)
That sounds like an aggressive copyleft license plus a paid commercial license to avoid the copyleft terms. If someone wants to charge for a software library, is there a good royalty-free, one-time payment license template out there somewhere?
Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by icebraining on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:55AM (#25033463)
The problem with dual-licensing is that it impedes collaboration. If one contributes a big feature, shouldn't they also get some cash from those sales? If so, who decides how much?
Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by kd5bjo on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:20AM (#25033597)
That would be a negotiation between the library maintainer, who is running a business selling commercial licenses, and the potential contributor, who wants to be a paid supplier to said business. If the negotiations fail, the contributor’s code is neither merged into upstream nor sold as part of the commercial offering.