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Re:A few ways to make money in FOSS by cercatrova on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:11PM (#25233409)
That's not really FOSS, if I get it from someone else who did contribute to the project, which they can share with me under their FOSS license, then I just bypassed your commercial license legally.
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Re:A few ways to make money in FOSS by pickledcods on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:17PM (#25233442)
You can catch that with a pass-on clause. The idea behind this is to stop commercially exploitation of your contribution to FOSS with intention to keep everything for themselves and keeping the FOSS philosophy for those who do care.
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Re:A few ways to make money in FOSS by cercatrova on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:21PM (#25233472)
The problem with all of these kinds of FOSS-but-not-really is that, well, they're not really FOSS, only ostensibly so. Companies would have every right to use FOSS themselves, so it's not really the FOSS philosophy, it's something else. In that case, just make it source available or even proprietary, just don't call it open source.
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