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0 pointsChris20482mo ago0 comments

Would a third party 'productising' FOSS be acceptable to the FOSS community?

for example, adding support, bug fixes, corp-friendly licencing and pricing models, private code/package repos, code/package signing, etc. Providing biz ppl to be available for meetings, legal protection, PII, etc.

To foster goodwill, they could even send some of the profit back to the original maintainer, ala pikapods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31312682

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2ndorderthought2mo ago· 1 in thread

I'm not suggesting productizing but if someone skimmed 0.5-5% off of some of my packages licenses and gave me the rest without me having to do anything I would be happy with that. I think the important thing would be, customers would likely expect less support so licenses should be cheaper.

People who don't want tiered licenses could definitely just mit it and walk away of course.

I do like the idea of paying back the original maintainers otherwise people could sandbag projects to fork them later.

Chris2048OP2mo ago

> skimmed 0.5-5% off of some of my packages licenses

What do you mean by this? A FOSS product that has a paid packaged version?

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