kazinator
a year ago
It's amusing that people think that a two-year lag in licensing is enough to thwart the so-called freeloaders.
It could take way more time than that just for you to get noticed and have any users at all.
If your popularity starts 8 years from now, and your license converts to BSD-like or whatever 2 years from now, that's as good as just licensing it that way today.
I think how you want to work this is that the license goes free N years after the estimated date when you hit a base of M users.
ezekg
a year ago
You may be misunderstanding the delayed open source bit [0]. Typically, this will manifest itself through commits, but isn't limited to that (releases, etc.). For example, if commit A is made on 2024-09-27, and commit B is made on 2024-09-28, A will be open source on 2026-09-27, and B on 2026-09-28. That means that any "free-rider", e.g. a competitor, is 2 years behind master (assuming the project is still maintained).