It's amusing that people think that a two-year lag in licensing is enough to thwart the so-called freeloaders.
It could take way more time than that just for you to get noticed and have any users at all.
If your popularity starts 8 years from now, and your license converts to BSD-like or whatever 2 years from now, that's as good as just licensing it that way today.
I think how you want to work this is that the license goes free N years after the estimated date when you hit a base of M users.
kazinator
Okay. Let's talk about the semantics of the pariah being targeted by some of the fair source rhetoric.
Is it "free-rider" as in beer? Or "free-rider" as in speech?
ezekg
I built this to try out shadcn/ui and to better keep tabs on new Fair Source [0] projects. I was pleasantly surprised to discover quite the lot of projects previously unknown to me, including several large ones. It's particularly cool to see adoption of the FCL [1], initially drafted for my company.
It could take way more time than that just for you to get noticed and have any users at all.
If your popularity starts 8 years from now, and your license converts to BSD-like or whatever 2 years from now, that's as good as just licensing it that way today.
I think how you want to work this is that the license goes free N years after the estimated date when you hit a base of M users.