Comment on How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem?
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 3 weeks ago
Charging corporation. Making it free for personal use and nonprofits
Comment on How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem?
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 3 weeks ago
Charging corporation. Making it free for personal use and nonprofits
Pixelguin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the right way, but you will have to weather the storm of FOSS devotees jumping down your throat because your software doesn’t meet the OSI’s definition of open source.
I’m torn; ideologically I like the idea of “open means open,” but in practice that seems to result in corporations taking endlessly from FOSS while giving little to nothing back (or giving nothing but bug reports). How do projects like Blender get away with it?
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
The answer is AGPLv3, or an exception if a corporation pays for one (in which case it just becomes a commercial license).
Charging corporations is not a violation of OSI’s definition.
Their definition is free as in speech, not as in beer.
Maybe artists are just less greedy than the average tech bro?