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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by faeyanpiraat on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:29AM (#25033316)
In a way the dual licensing could do exactly that, it's just a manual process, and not "automated" by the license.
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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by michaelt on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:01AM (#25033495)
It depends on the project.

If your GPL project will be so tightly coupled with the company's project that their entire project will become GPL - then yes. Big libraries like Qt, for example.

On the other hand, if the coupling to the user's project is loose and doesn't make their entire project GPL, they have no reason to pay for a license. For example, compiling with gcc or hosting with nginx, or calling ffmpeg doesn't make your entire product GPL.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by faeyanpiraat on Monday November 09, 2020 @10:03AM (#25035461)
Wouldn't using AGPL solve this issue?
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