Re:How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invo...
by dwohnitmok on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:07PM
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> sell it as closed proprietary software
This is not true for all open source licenses. Copyleft licenses such as the GPL and its variants prevent this.
Someone can distribute your software instead of you and thereby lock you out of any profits there, especially if they undercut your price (in the limit case they can distribute your paid software for free), but certain open source licenses prevent retroactive locking as proprietary software.
This is not true for all open source licenses. Copyleft licenses such as the GPL and its variants prevent this.
Someone can distribute your software instead of you and thereby lock you out of any profits there, especially if they undercut your price (in the limit case they can distribute your paid software for free), but certain open source licenses prevent retroactive locking as proprietary software.