<div><div class="gmail_default" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><font style="font-size:0.8333312273025513rem;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)">Dear KDE community,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><font style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><font style="font-size:0.8333312273025513rem;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)">Maybe you could advise whether it's worth digging in the following direction? I'm thinking a lot about the possibility of introducing a certain deserved reward of the open-source community efforts to an OSS license itself while keeping the open-source spirit unchanged. Something like a permissive license except the case of intellectual property selling decisions by some of the contributors of the project and its forks. Business operations should be kept fully royalty free though. </font><span style="font-size:0.8333312273025513rem;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)">I drafted some </span><a href="https://github.com/SafeOSS/oss-licenses/blob/main/LICENSE-BOSS.txt" style="font-size:0.8333312273025513rem;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank">license text</a><span style="font-size:0.8333312273025513rem;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)">.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><font style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><font style="font-size:0.8333312273025513rem;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)">I'm trying to avoid the dual-licensing approach, and to introduce some license which includes both elements per se. I'm also trying to avoid some issues faced by Qt or MariaDB. Such attempts have been made a few times (like Sourcegraph’s Fair Source License, Cockroach’s Community License, etc.).</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><font style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><font style="font-size:0.8333312273025513rem;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)">Does it make sense to work on? I don't have a particular goal. It's my hobby, I heavily used OSS for my scientific research while contributing and cooperating. I work in commercial IT now and have a feeling that the efforts of the OSS community are so great and important that different forms of monetization must be thought of fundamentally there.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><font style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><font style="font-size:0.8333312273025513rem;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)">Thank you in advance for your advice!</font></div><div style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);border-color:rgb(51,51,51);color:rgb(51,51,51)" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="2" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(51,51,51);color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><i style="font-family:arial;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></i></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><i style="font-size:0.8125rem;font-family:arial;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)">Kind regards</i><i style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)">,</i><i style="font-family:arial;border-color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/btanygin/" style="font-size:0.8125rem;font-family:arial;border-color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank">Bogdan Tanygin</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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