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I think messing with licenses just won't work, people want to choose libs that are uncomplicated and free to use and can be used to build commercial products without paying.



Companies also want maintained software libraries where critical vulnerabilities and bugs will be addressed. Code goes stale.

Active maintenance has a price. And micropayments mean the price can be spread over thousands of companies.

But I'm biased because I'm working on a solution along those lines!


And most open source projects that are just starting out want adoption.

Which is why they wouldn't go with something like this.




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