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Comment by eru

4 months ago

It would be very, very hard to make this work in practice.

What does it mean to offer a job? Can they offer a job that pays a dollar a year and call it a day? Or can you force them to offer you a job that pays a billion dollars a year?

Can they offer you a job, but only in Antarctica? What about visa sponsorship?

Of course, you can write whatever ill conceived terms you want in your license. But if your license is badly written, any decent company lawyer would strongly advice staying away from your code. And if that's the outcome you want: you might as well open source it with a 'non-commercial use only' license.

Worse things have been tried.

That actually doesn't sound so bad. (Designing the job requirements!)

  • > That actually doesn't sound so bad. (Designing the job requirements!)

    Well, it's similar to having a license that allows the author to decide on the price of the product after the other side has decided to buy it. There just won't be any buyers.