Protecting the open-source license commons
Protecting the open-source license commons
Posted Nov 13, 2018 5:43 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: Protecting the open-source license commons by pabs
Parent article: Protecting the open-source license commons
In my personal case, even if *I* did take action against abusers to recover compensation for prior use of my code in the work concerned, outside the copyleft licence I gave, there are (many) other copyright holders, and *in no way* could any abusers I took action against ever receive a "proprietary licence" as a result!
That said, I am not against proprietary licensing at all, if it allows the developers of copyleft software to get the following types of corporates to fund and pay for the development of copyleft software:
a) Corporates who would otherwise avoid using and contributing to copyleft software, as much as possible.
b) Corporates who would otherwise parasitically use and abuse copyleft software
The non-profit model just isn't going to fly. If a non-profit gains traction, it will just be captured by the type-b corporates via donations. I've been in one and watched it happen. It just destroys copyleft software and communities. A few developers benefit perhaps, but the rest is destroyed.