My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
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Re: My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
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Re: My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
#3Right off the bat there's a pretty serious error:
> There’s been a lot of discussion about licensing in the news, with Red Hat and now Hashicorp notably adjusting their licensing models to be more “business friendly,” and Codecov (proudly, and mistakenly) pronouncing they are now “open source.”
Red Hat has not adjusted any of their "licensing models." They've simply stopped publishing the RHEL sources publicly. They're still published and fully available to paying customers, who are the only ones they are legally[1] required to distribute them to. None of the licenses (GPL, MIT, etc) have any requirements to publicly distribute code.
[1]: there is some dispute over whether the customer agreement violates the GPL in spirit or letter, but that's a different question. It's not a licensing thing, it's a business agreement/contract that is completely separate from the licenses. The licenses don't require you to do business with people you don't want to do business with, and they don't require you to give away your product for free.
Re: My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
#4Hope this continues to work. Commercial version costs all of $.02 per external user per month. I hate auth so this seems like a no-brainer.
Re: My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
#5I have switched a couple of my more popular projects from OSL:
https://opensource.org/license/osl-3-0-php
to non commercial:
https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0
people always howl that "its no longer open source", and maybe that's true. but the source code is still on GitHub as its always been, and you can still do whatever you want with it, as long as its not for commercial purpose. I offer a commercial license for a fee. so despite the roar of complaints from open source purists, it works for me.
Re: My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
#6Right off the bat there's a pretty serious error: > There’s been a lot of discussion about licensing in the news, with Red Hat and now Hashicorp notably adjusting their licensing models to be more “business friendly,” and Codecov (proudly, and mistakenly) pronouncing they are now “open source.” Red Hat has not adjusted any of their "licensing models." They've simply stopped publishing the RHEL sources publicly. They'…
Not arguing. But in practice there’s some number of large orgs hostile to GPL (which strikes me as bass-ackwards, but there you have it).
Re: My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
#7Tl;dr: "I would like to justify my decision to dump the GPL for money."
Re: My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
#8I have switched a couple of my more popular projects from OSL: https://opensource.org/license/osl-3-0-php to non commercial: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0 people always howl that "its no longer open source", and maybe that's true. but the source code is still on GitHub as its always been, and you can still do whatever you want with it, as long as its not for commercial purpose. I offer a co…
Interesting. Has it been more advantageous financially?
Re: My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
#9I'm curious about this line:
As a company and a real legal entity, we would have recourse if something like AWS/Elasticsearch were to happen
Re: My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
#10I have switched a couple of my more popular projects from OSL: https://opensource.org/license/osl-3-0-php to non commercial: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0 people always howl that "its no longer open source", and maybe that's true. but the source code is still on GitHub as its always been, and you can still do whatever you want with it, as long as its not for commercial purpose. I offer a co…
Do you know how that non commercial license differs from BSL? I’m getting ready to release a product and trying to figure out licensing.