I think there isn't a license like that and I am not a law expert (as most of you), but I'd like to put my opinion:
- "really rich" seems very subjective. - what is the role your library have in the final product? and what is fair?. If you have a library like let's say "node-redis" and someone make a lot of money with "Enterprise Paid Node Redis Driver" which uses yours, I think you diserve something bigger than if someone make a lot of money with a new social network that also uses your library. I think this is at some degree very subjective too, these two examples are black and white but there are also lot of grey areas. If someone is making a lot of money with your library there are some good chances that they will hire you 2013/5/7 Saleem Abdul Hamid <[email protected]> > Is there a license that says most people can do whatever you want with my > stuff but if Microsoft (example) uses it to make 100 million dollars, I > want to negotiate for a piece of it? That's really the question everyone is > asking, although they're too shy to say it, because wanting to make money > off of your stuff is considered bad form in certain quarters. > > Personally, even if a huge company with a lot of money was using one of my > projects as an integral part of a moneymaker, I'd be happy with a very, > very fair (for them) royalty that they would probably not even consider > significant. But if you use the MIT, the question of negotiating anything > doesn't even come up. > > To be clear, I want a license that is not infectious at all. That lets > people use, modify, redistribute, all that good stuff. But just leaves open > the door that if someone gets really rich using my project, I can benefit > from coming up with the idea and doing the work. > > Is there a license that represents this? > > On Friday, December 14, 2012 10:38:05 PM UTC-5, Forrest L Norvell wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, David Herron <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I'm curious about the preferred license for modules that are distributed >>> through the npmjs.org repository >> >> >> We discussed this a bit at NodeConf summer camp this year, and the >> consensus was pretty strongly in favor of BSD or MIT licenses, or at least >> pretty liberal, commercial-use friendly licenses (including the Perl and >> Apache licenses). >> >> In particular is there any legal barrier to using GPL in such modules? >>> >>> As far as I understand it, the legal barrier would be whether a module >>> which uses a GPL'd module is derivative of that module. I don't think that >>> it would be, but then the LGPL license does exist for a reason. >>> >> >> Isaac can speak to this more authoritatively than I can, but npm itself >> prescribes / proscribes no particular licenses. You could attach GPL3 >> licenses to your modules if you wanted, but uptake would probably be >> hampered, especially if there were some kind of associated Canonical-style >> contributor's agreement. Node is still pretty much the wild west, and it's >> tough to say if today's random hack project might not become tomorrow's >> startup idea, and I think most devs want to keep their options open. >> >> F >> > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
