[edgedetector]

Traditional engineering can be done by unlicensed persons. It's just that the final design must be signed off by a licensed engineer. In the same way, open source software can be contributed to by unlicensed software engineers, but if the system will be used in a production product, it must be signed off by a licensed software engineer.

[musicale]

> if the system will be used in a production product, it must be signed off by a licensed software engineer.

Now I think you're talking about something that large companies could get behind: a massive barrier to market entry and competition that simultaneously neutralizes the threat of open source software while allowing them to sell it.

[Aerroon]

>It's just that the final design must be signed off by a licensed engineer.

This is a great way to establish a new system to elicit corruption like you get with building permits etc. After all, you don't want your design to be stuck for 9 months waiting for approval, do you?