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Thoughts on Post-Open Source? (www.theregister.com)
submitted 10 months ago by actual_patience@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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TLDR: Companies should be required to pay developers for any open source software they use.

He imagines a simple yearly compliance process that gets companies all the rights they need to use Post-Open software. And they'd fund developers who would be encouraged to write software that's usable by the common person, as opposed to technical experts.

It's an interesting concept, but I don't really see any feasible means to get this to kick off.

What are your thoughts on it?

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[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 45 points 10 months ago

I mean just license it as such right? You can't say it's completely free for anyone to use then complain you aren't getting paid.

[-] actual_patience@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Well the question is, how would such a license look like? Or would it be a contract and not a license?

I guess I should ask a lawyer these questions, but I wanted to see what others here thought about the idea.

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

You can buy a license to use software. That's how a lot of software works.

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