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Open source maintenance fee (opensourcemaintenancefee.org)
submitted 2 weeks 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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[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But I’m one of the few privileged users who can build from source.

There are avenues available for less-privileged users to obtain builds of free software projects (e.g. GNU/Linux distributions, F-Droid, and so on).

[-] bruce965@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Then what's even is the point of this license? There will always be a third party distributing unofficial binaries.

And if this license forbade third parties to redistribute binaries, then it would no longer really be FOSS.

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