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Interesting idea. A couple questions:
How would it work if the open source maintainer is a commercial company?
AFAIK there are no restrictions on when an Open source maintainer can change their license. They can do it even after their work has already been used.
So couldn't a company like, Facebook (since they own open source React) just change their React license to this one and all of sudden start charging everyone for it? ๐ค
The old version will still be available under whatever license it was released with
Sure but new versions are released pretty often, which essentially means they can change their license whenever they want.
See the current Redis situation, or Mongo a little while ago, among others. Originally open source, then at a certain point they changed to a source-available/more restricted license. The final open source license releases have been forked and now maintained as an alternative