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Okay this just came up on Bluesky and it's hilarious and I kind of like it.

  • Use AGPL with a narrow CLA that allows the project maintainer to redistribute as proprietary without modification or derivative work rights (this is key, it's what prevents the rug-pull/enshittification).
  • Add premium features to the (AGPL) codebase, gated behind license checks on licenses signed with a private key
  • Sell corporate customers non AGPL build+licenses for the premium stuff
  • Everyone else can just patch one line of code to use the premium features under AGPL.

This is quite literally an "extract money from corporations with dumb lawyers" hack. The AGPL already allows anyone to run the code without modifying it, they gain absolutely nothing from paying, legally speaking. But since those customers are allergic to the AGPL, it works in practice.

I'd be on board with this kind of setup.

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@lina@vt.social this is what Grafana does, actually! it's a pretty solid monetization strategy

@julia The Grafana CLA isn't narrowly scoped though, they are free to rugpull and enshittify.

@lina@vt.social is it? I strongly doubt they will, in any case.

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Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to Grafana Labs and to recipients of software distributed by Grafana Labs a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works.

Time and time again this kind of CLA has been abused for a rugpull...

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@lina ime corporations would not use this software.

Anything AGPL in any way is not prohibited even on like engineer workstations (eg, one could get fired for just having the Joplin app on their personal phone)

@lina this is like those foss apps that have in-app purchases on the play store version but you can just get all the features if you download the apk from the gihub release

@lina ok i will do it in my next project (maybe)

@lina i cannot find a link but someone also suggested putting a "is this device enrolled in MDM?" check to see if it's running on a corp laptop

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