An old-school C++ dev and I have started an initiative to combine the best of Open Source with a limited commercial license. It's not a new idea - MySQL creator Monty Widenius thought of something less viral in 2013 [1].
The Time-Bombed Open License [2] is the commercial side of a dual-licensed project, best paired with something strongly viral like GPL. Essentially, the project owner has 2 (up to 4) years to commercialise their product and then must go fully Open Source. The license is viral, so any commercial licensees must also use the TBOL and eventually open up their derived products. One major idea is to foster a culture of disruption of exploitative industries. If you can develop software to disrupt in your local market, your innovation can be used similarly by others elsewhere, and each new startup can improve on your work while earning their keep. Eventually, all derived products become Open Source and are free to all. We'd appreciate any comments, feedback and assistance from the wonderful Clojure community - we're up on twitter at @OccupyStartups. Regards, Fergal Byrne p.s. I wonder if this might be a solution to the clamour for Datomic to be Open Sourced (cough)? [1] http://monty-says.blogspot.ie/2013/06/business-source-software-license-with.html [2] http://occupystartups.me -- Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne Founder of Clortex: HTM in Clojure - https://github.com/nupic-community/clortex Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC Read for free or buy the book at https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines e:fergalbyrnedub...@gmail.com t:+353 83 4214179 Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org Formerly of Adnet edi...@adnet.ie http://www.adnet.ie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
