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Thoughts on Post-Open Source? (www.theregister.com)
submitted 10 months ago by actual_patience@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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TLDR: Companies should be required to pay developers for any open source software they use.

He imagines a simple yearly compliance process that gets companies all the rights they need to use Post-Open software. And they'd fund developers who would be encouraged to write software that's usable by the common person, as opposed to technical experts.

It's an interesting concept, but I don't really see any feasible means to get this to kick off.

What are your thoughts on it?

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[โ€“] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

GPL isn't the only open source license. This comment is beyond bizarre because it seems to imply that all open source software is GPL? And of course when software is licensed as GPL, that license can be enforced when someone breaks it (like your example). The original comment never mentioned GPL, it was about when something was licensed ss free. So when you give an example where it wasn't licensed as such, what was the point?

[โ€“] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The entire linked article is talking about "open source" in terms of the GPL specifically.