Comment by blibble
9 months ago
> No one will ever, EVER be able to "contribute proportionately" given the endless bounty of software made freely available for all to use.
so it sounds like we need a license mechanism that enforces this, fairly, based on potential ability to contribute
idea: a benchmark to give a required level of contributions, maybe a logistic function of revenue generated/company size and time since initial usage
and if you fall beneath it, your license is terminated
carefully calibrated such that a burden is only placed on very large companies
Just make it closed source (or source-available) and give out no-cost licenses how you see fit. You are the author, you decide what to do with your code. This is a well-supported model too, plenty of products are like that.
There are plenty of licenses around, lack of alternatives isn't why people use MIT or Apache.