I tried a couple license finders and I even looked into the OSI database but I could not find a license that works pretty much like agpl but requiring payment (combined 1% of revenue per month, spread evenly over all FOSS software, if applicable) if one of these is true:

  • the downstream user makes revenue (as in “is a company” or gets donations)
  • the downstream distributor is connected to a commercial user (e.g. to exclude google from making a non profit to circumvent this license)

I ask this because of the backdoor in xz and the obviously rotten situation in billion dollar companies not kicking their fair share back to the people providing this stuff.

So, if something similar exists, feel free to let me know.

Thanks for reading and have a good one.

  • @merthyr1831
    14•8 months ago

    Sure. The point being though that companies will explicitly avoid projects that expect payment except for very specific circumstances.

    And, as much as corporations get the work for “free”, so do other free software projects who will also explicitly avoid anything that adds further costs to their own work.

    If you’re that afraid of someone getting your software for free then you might as well make your project proprietary because you’re misunderstanding, fundamentally, how FOSS works.