Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
It's not OSS if the author can do that arbitrarily. Think about it - you could wait until something is really popular, and then go shake down every user using it...
Not necessarily the users directly, but at least the enity, which is managing the reproduction and distribution rights. The point is to guarantee the author an "adequate commision" if e.g. more copies of his work are published than the author was able to expect when he granted the original publishing license. The idea does not match very well with free as in free beer, but this is indeed the legal situation in most countries.
Heh. Double heh.
Yes, heh. Tor
