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by ThrowawayR2 2021 days ago
> "if your company makes >X revenue a year, give us some of it."

That would just be a proprietary license with source availability. It would also dry up any community contributions since contributors are generally not going to help a for-profit project without themselves getting paid.

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The Mapbox people make the point that, at least in terms of their core functionality, there wasn't really a community outside of mapbox employees.
Sure, the license would have to figure out how to share revenue with major contributors too.

> contributors are generally not going to help a for-profit project without themselves getting paid.

Contributors already contribute to for-profit open source projects without themselves getting paid. This license would make the situation strictly better for them.