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.

  • Atemu
    31·
    2 months ago

    It’s clearly a license fee. I don’t see how a license fee stands in conflict with FOSS though. FOSS is Free as in freedom, not free as in gratis.

    The godfather of all FLOSS licenses himself (GPL) contains explicit terms to allow license fees too.

    • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      The freedom in Foss is freedom to redistribute (under the same license).

      Is the the distributor or the og developer getting the licensing fees? Neither makes any sense to me.

      • Atemu
        1·
        2 months ago

        That’s the hard part: Who has claims to how much of the license fees. That’s an extremely tough question to answer because it necessitates quantification of code contributions which is far from a solved problem.