2026-04-27 18:13 UTC
@owiecc@en.osm.town the problems start with what is "a for-profit company" / "non-profit use" and end with that not being FLOSS. And I'm saying that as someone that has run a commercial SAAS company and as a OSS developer and as somebody with a non negligible knowledge of open licensing.
It isn't as if that hasn't been tried btw, but in practical terms freemium business models seem to work better (and naturally have their own specific downsides).
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@owiecc@en.osm.town 2026-04-27 18:20
@simon@en.osm.town Then maybe a simple copyleft license → free, copyright license → paid (with e.g. included updates for current major release for one month) model? If a company want to update continuously they pay monthly.