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re: core-js sadness,

Does FOSS need a non-commercial license?

@cobra@fedi.vern.cc @alcinnz @dheadshot

I remember hearing rms say that he paid the rent for several years by selling tapes of EMACS to people by mail.

With all FOSS projects being online, that's no longer a possibility.

I know it wouldn't be truly Free, but I'm wondering if something like CC BY-NC would be beneficial, or if people just need to be better at marketing themselves.

@RL_Dane @cobra@fedi.vern.cc @alcinnz @dheadshot

As the COMM major my tendency is to lean toward being good at marketing yourself. ;)

Here's the thing about licensing: for someone starting out in a field like writing or coding freelance, the concern is less that people will pirate your work or make it proprietary and more that they'll never run into it at all because your license was restrictive and people weren't sharing it.
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@benjaminhollon @cobra@fedi.vern.cc @alcinnz @dheadshot

That makes sense, I submitted an issue to a project because they were using a fairly not-well-thought-out custom license. They listened and changed it to MIT, iirc.

But that was my reasoning: you're hurting adoption by not using a recognizable license.

What about a non-commercial-above-100-employees license? ;)

Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫

@RL_Dane @cobra@fedi.vern.cc @alcinnz @dheadshot
I still wouldn't use it for a business on the off-chance that my business would grow with a central dependency that I now can't use under the license I had.

Honestly I don't know that I'd use anything for a business of mine that had any terms restricting whether you can profit off of it. I respect that license, but if you don't want me making money, I won't use it for endeavours aimed at me making money.

@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane @cobra @alcinnz @dheadshot And here comes the funding option of selling GPL exceptions.

@lispi314

Can it really have exceptions, though?

@benjaminhollon

@RL_Dane @benjaminhollon The copyright owner can do that, yes.

gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#

The typically means either CLAs (which are often abusive so no one's interested in contributing) or simply a project that's purposely developed by single person or team in cathedral development style.

www.gnu.orgFrequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation