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by sdrzn 2424 days ago
The problem with non-permissive licensing is that a lot of employment contracts strictly forbid them. That and commercially licensed OSS projects have no way to distribute funds to arbitrary contributors in a legally straightforward way.

And I personally have not had any success with donations, whereas 2 days after setting up my project with GitRoyalty me and my contributors are making $10/month.
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nine_k 2424 days ago
This is indeed an interesting problem! It looks like a way to sell a commercial license in effect, without selling it in any legal terms.

I wonder how funds acquired via GitRoyalty get distributed, from the legal standpoint, and what makes such distribution different from distributing a share from a sale of a commercial license.

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zaphirplane 2424 days ago
What is the difference between your open source repository and this one. I am assuming that the model is having 2 repos one open source and the other with gitroyalty with something extra (edit I see it uses sub modules)
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