GPL Time Bomb – an interesting approach to FOSS licensing
This is obviously much better than proprietary as people can potentially benefit in the future from your work and I thank you for being so kind as to share it and yet I would probably use something significantly crappier to have real open source and several other things seem problematic.<p>-- Others are unlikely to contribute to the proprietary fork.<p>-- What do you do about contributions to the gpl3 version they would be copyright their creators and couldn&#x27;t be part of a closed source version even the authors without copyright assignment.<p>-- Do you backport fixes to the gpl version.  It would be far simpler to say use the new version wherein issue foo is fixed.  If you do its a lot more work if you don&#x27;t the gpl version isn&#x27;t just a older version its a known broken pos that will never be fixed.<p>-- What if people offer fixes to the gpl version will they be expected to assign copyright so you can use them in the proprietary version?<p>-- 3 years is an eternity.  In 1 year someone could make their own version of whatever it is you are doing that is actually open source if it was really worth having it would also have none of the above complications.