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  • (Posting this at 01:41 after a very, very full week and with flubrain: take considered potentially faulty on delivery)

    I’ve often thought about this specific problem part, and i gotta admit I’m pre-conflicted. Due aforementioned note I haven’t read the license yet (I’ll do in the week and post a reply with thoughts) but from what I’ve observed to date:

    • only certain kinds/sets of corps appear to give a damn about licensing
    • even if one initiates legal action against the offenders, they’re typically banking on financial asymmetry first and inter-area regulatory friction second

    And ito a policy having defensive teeth, those are two load bearing pillars that turn out to not even be moth eaten wooden beams but instead rice crispies held together in a sugar glaze

    Consider: what if some popular projects had a “if you’re using this in something making >= $thresholdOrPortionCalc, you must support the project with $percentageOfRevenue” clause in licensing? Modulo the payment distribution admit (lol @ modern aml nightmare), would help a ton with the open source funding squeeze. But can you imagine the bleeting (and probably parasitic forking) if that started happening?

    Put another way: without copyright and IP reform (into what shape I have only vague suggestions), how far do licenses get us?

    (I’m sorry if this sounds extremely negative -afaict with current regulatory climates and where-IP-is-at, it’s the broadstrokes view. Icbw in detail (I expect I am at least in some detail). But I want to be wrong because god this all fucking sucks)