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Re:A few ways to make money in FOSS by pornel on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:59PM (#25233715)
You don't need a new kind of license for this. You can dual-license a project as (A)GPL & commercial. Business-wise it's like a freemium model. The GPL option is friendly to FLOSS projects while avoiding being free-as-in-free-labor. Companies happily pay for a commercial license, because that's easier and safer for them than to think how GPL could work for them.
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Re:A few ways to make money in FOSS by mroche on Saturday November 28, 2020 @01:34AM (#25235756)
If the project is accepting third-party code contributions, the dual-licensing steps into CLA territory which not everyone is comfortable with.

So depending on the project that may cost the development some contributors.

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