(IANAL. I'm fantasizing. Please ignore.) I've often thought it would be worthwhile to have some kind of "free once I make some money" license. Like, if you're a not-for-profit entity, you can use this code under BSD today. If you are a for-profit enterprise, you can use this code freely for profit as long as you pay me $100. Once I've made $100,000 from this code, it'll be released for all under the BSD license.
Neat idea for a startup or something :) On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Martin Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Alex Kocharin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> You can use dual-licensing. Let people choose GPL or commercial license, >> so anyone who can't use infectious type will be forced to pay... > > > ... or simply choose a different package. It's open source; if people don't > like the terms, and there's a need, someone else will write one with more > acceptable terms. You won't "force" anyone to pay. > > -- > Martin Cooper > > >> -- >> // alex >> >> >> 07.05.2013, 16:51, "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. >> >> > > > -- > -- > 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. 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