Tern.js and some other projects I've seen was crow-founded in a similar way http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tern-intelligent-javascript-editing
The author says "I am going to do this anyway, but if I reach X amount before some date it will be opensource, otherwise will be a paid-product forever", kickstarter kind of thing 2013/5/7 Isaac Schlueter <[email protected]> > (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. > 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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