Bruce Perens recently outlined a "Post-Open" vision that aims to compensate developers fairly for their work and provide a more streamlined licensing and compliance model for companies using open source software.
https://www.thestack.technology/open-source-pioneer-perens-says-time-for-post-open/
https://perens.com/static/DEVELOPMENT_LICENSE.txt?v=2004_04_01
Reading it, the license grants restricted rights to use the software for free up to $5 million in revenue per year, after which companies must pay for additional rights. It also sets conditions like prohibiting export for military/defense purposes, requiring modifications to be publicly released or paid for, and banning training of machine learning models without releasing the resulting model under the same terms.
I've got a ton of respect for Bruce but if you were thinking about adopting something like this you would be better off hiring a lawyer to write something more specific on your behalf.
We've had Free as in beer... Free as in speech.... and now Free as in a large legal team.
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