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Open source maintenance fee (opensourcemaintenancefee.org)

submitted 1 week ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I saw this some time ago and wasn't really sure how to feel about it. On one hand it's good to make corporations compensate maintainers, but I also don't want to be forced to ask for a fee because my project uses another project that uses this.

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[-] nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

Dual licensure is the obvious solution. Have a strong copyleft license as default (Sorry MIT!) and then have a non-transferrable commercial license for proprietary businesses.

this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025

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