[OT] Hybrid open-source licenses?

[Bogdan Tanygin]

Dear KDE community,

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. I drafted
some license text
<https://github.com/SafeOSS/oss-licenses/blob/main/LICENSE-BOSS.txt>.

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.).

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.

Thank you in advance for your advice!

*Kind regards**,*
*Bogdan Tanygin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/btanygin/>*
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*Sincerely yours **/ mit freundlichen Grüßen,*
*Bogdan Tanygin*
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