Futo’s and Rossman’s responses don’t make their goals any clearer to me. Sure, they’ve avoided the issue by not using “open source” now, but why all this mess in the first place?
They’re worried about developers of open-source software not getting paid? Then pay them to develop it (looks like they’re doing that already, so great!). So why then keep bringing up that developers need to be paid, if they’re paying them? Royalties?
Annoyed that big tech is taking open-source code and not giving back? Why not use a copyleft license? You can always dual license. Problem solved. Why make a new Frankenstein license that tries to do both, but just looks like it sucks at everything?
Futo’s and Rossman’s responses don’t make their goals any clearer to me. Sure, they’ve avoided the issue by not using “open source” now, but why all this mess in the first place?
They’re worried about developers of open-source software not getting paid? Then pay them to develop it (looks like they’re doing that already, so great!). So why then keep bringing up that developers need to be paid, if they’re paying them? Royalties?
Annoyed that big tech is taking open-source code and not giving back? Why not use a copyleft license? You can always dual license. Problem solved. Why make a new Frankenstein license that tries to do both, but just looks like it sucks at everything?