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Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

196 points · 209 comments · Muhammad523

  1. mentalgear · · focus · HN ↗
    I feel like the main issue with projects switching between a permissive and less permissive license and back is that starting out as fully permissive in the first place was the main error.

    If everybody would just agree to start their open source code as something like source-available or OpenRAIL -requiring companies with more than $5M in annual revenue to pay for the work - we wouldn't be in this situation.

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