Making Open Source economy more viable with dual license collectives
&gt; As an Open Source developer, you build a new cool library or a tool and license it under AGPL. This preserves all the Free Software freedoms for all the non-commercial users out there. You don&#x27;t have to compromise on it. Debian and Brew can still ship them. Then you go to one or more FOSS Collectives and sign a licensing deal (if they find your project worthwhile). From now on the Collective can license it to commercial organizations that don&#x27;t want to touch AGPL stuff, and pay you a cut!<p>Isn&#x27;t dual licensing already somewhat popular? To me it seems like what&#x27;s being proposed is a lot like a SaaS solution for handling the unpleasant legalese-heavy aspects of licensing software, but with some sort of a community weight behind it, or maybe i&#x27;m misreading this?<p>If nothing else, it&#x27;s curious to see all sorts of attempts at new licensing schemes show up, even though some (like SSPL <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Server_Side_Public_License" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Server_Side_Public_License</a>) are really controversial. I guess eventually we&#x27;ll see what works and what doesn&#x27;t, i just hope that the people who need to be compensated for their work to keep contributing will find ways to do that, with it hopefully being normalized enough by then.<p>I&#x27;m not sure whether that&#x27;s open source, though - more like conditional open source, that only applies to other open source or non-commercial projects, but requires investment for commercial entities. A bit like &quot;source available&quot; for them, in this case - you can still view the code and maybe try it out in an internal prototype, but will have to get a license to actually use it.<p>Then again, i don&#x27;t really think of it as a bad thing and it might be a decent solution to the problem of &quot;Software below the poverty line&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;staltz.com&#x2F;software-below-the-poverty-line.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;staltz.com&#x2F;software-below-the-poverty-line.html</a><p>As someone who receives about 20-30k euros a year (dayjob as a dev in Eastern Europe, though it&#x27;s been pointed out to me that i should strive for more), additional income in any form, be it freelancing, bug bounties or even something like this seems like a nice idea!