Comment by vegadw

Comment by vegadw 10 months ago

This may be a hot take, but I love the un-usable for business licenses and the fun multiple lowest-to-highest paid worker and ethical restrictions (No use in weapons, for example) licenses, but not for their direct restrictions but rather because almost no large business will ever want to touch them, but small players and individuals don't care.

Those licenses let me say "This is open to the individual and small business, but not a mega corp" without actually needing to define a hard cut off.

Besides, it's not like most developers of FOSS software that use these have the time/money/energy to bother to sue over infringement anyway, so practically this is their main purpose.

jimjag 10 months ago

But it is that exact kind of unknown which makes most people and entities avoid those licenses in the 1st place. If the goal is to significantly limit the distribution and reach, I guess it makes sense, but if the goal is to have people actually use it (and therefore hopefully contribute to it), then those licenses and the projects that use them are actively avoided.

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andrewmcwatters 10 months ago

I agree. We have a license monoculture despite whatever irrelevant number of licenses people say exist.

Create real terms. Create demands for your work. Charge something. Charge nothing but require volunteer hours. Do something different. Do something meaningful.

If you’re a small open source author you can afford to be creative. Most of the time no one’s going to give you a cent in the first place. There are ten thousand and one open source projects who haven’t made even $100.00.

You owe no one.

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