Sustainable open source will stay a dream

  • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    You can certainly make such a license but I think it will hinder adoption. Just do a paid license at that point and refuse to renew if someone makes you mad enough.

    • Mikina@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      But a paid licence will affect users that are all right abd for whom you’re doing it.

      I understand that using something with a risk of loosong access because you’ve upset the developer is something that will turn away a lot of people, but then again, I’d say that “don’t be a dick” is a pretty reasonable requirement. The only issue I see that it’s a pretty vague definiton, but maybe just limiting it to profanities and insult towards the contributors is something more concrete, which would be easy to fulfill and also enforce.