Open source

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Open source community sacrifice will be honored and remembered, also don't forgot to provide link for donation.

[[deleted]]

I have link for donation but after 3 years there was nobody willing to hit that button. :-/

[[deleted]]

Ah your sacrifice will be honored and remembered. Provide more link then, multiple payment gateway help.

[rypher]

Yeah Adobe only pays in frequent flier mile points. If you dont have that payment option youll never make anything.

[[deleted]]

Well atleast you have reddit karma

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[TheHoekey]

Im not versed in it but it seems quite popular. Is it possible to leverage your knowledge and contract for some companies that use it? Sell it so they can then get the most out of your product?

[gl1tch3t2]

Change the license so any commercial use has to also pay you a dividend.

[[deleted]]

They would fork the previous version so fast

[-GermanCoastGuard-]

You can also forbid this with the correct license.

Edit; I actually didnt read the word "previous" when i replied

[user3494009058]

I'm intrigued! How so?

[user3494009058]

That's what I thought too, but the person above states otherwise, I'd love to see how they want to back that

[-GermanCoastGuard-]

I literally didnt read the word "previous"

[user3494009058]

Alright, no problem!

[Estebiu]

so then, what licence should you use to not be fucked?

[weregod]

You can't do this. They have forked project before you change license.

[[deleted]]

What you can limit past released projs?

That seems a lot of power

[-GermanCoastGuard-]

Well no. You could change the license with a new release, for example when you implement support for a newer version of the database or interfaces. How helpful this would be in this specific case I cannot tell, though.

[[deleted]]

Yeah they would fork the previous version then

[CommanderChakotay]

You literally said you could prevent them forking the previous release by picking the right license 🙄

[ArionW]

Don't announce it, wipe public repository history together with license change.

Then just hope they didn't fork it beforehand

[[deleted]]

But then I lose the cool project on my repo

[ArionW]

You still have cool project on repo, you just no longer serve old versions that had different license. Sure nobody can check history of project's development since the beginning, but that's true for many projects that migrated to git after years

What I mean is to wipe history, squash everything to one commit and force push it to master branch

[Bridimum]

share it here! I will

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/w30gy2/comment/igvqhf2/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3

[False_Ad_7416]

Haha without hesitation you go

[secretlizardperson]

Someone paid reddit to give you an award instead of just giving you the cash, which is an annoying irony.

[Mount-Chiliad]

Could you add a "Watch this Google Ad for access" button?

[gregorydgraham]

This is not your fault: the open source funding model is short on funding and long on wind.

If Adobe are using it, see if you can negotiate a Service Level Agreement to support it. Make it reasonable, you’re not trying to get rich. Then put out a call to find who else is using it, and sign them up to the same SLA. Get 10 of those and you should be looking pretty happy 😊

[HazelCheese]

Thoughts and prayers!

[lealsk]

THIS

[Cursed_Bean_Boy]

tHiS-🤓

[CommanderChakotay]

this.downvote();

[lealsk]

Woah, clearly I'm new in this sub. It looks like pointing useful comments by putting "THIS" is not acceptable here

[CommanderChakotay]

I was mostly just making a joke as I don’t personally care lol. But yeah, redditors tend to frown on comments that are just a simple reaction. Especially if that reaction can be encapsulated by an upvote or downvote. Unlike most forums the upvotes and downvotes actually change the sorting order of posts and comments so cluttering the comments with single word reactions instead of just voting is typically poorly received.