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by dodgepong 1644 days ago
Paying for a license would be nearly impossible, as the OBS team would need every contributor to sign a CLA to give the OBS team the rights to relicense/dual-license the OBS code base.
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Would be nice if the contributors could get some money for it
The result would be hundreds of OBS closed source clones that do not contribute back to the project. It would be a disaster.
As long as they all pay a reasonable license fee, I don’t see a disaster. The OBS project could then pay developers to build open source features that benefit all. A lot of the forks would likely contain features that are not if interest to other users anyways.