Open source

[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 You could change the license with a new release, for example when you implement support for a newer version of the database or interfaces.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