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Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive” (drewdevault.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

These days selling the software itself is rarely successful nor a particularly good business model. Basically only computer games still work like that, and the commercially really successful ones not any more either.

[–] bitfucker 8 points 6 months ago

And this is how we got everything must be online/subscription or everything is a web app. And people complain about that too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hard agree on this. Sell software and services to companies, only sell services to end users. I believe both selling your service as a dev and selling a service behind a free app are compatible with copyleft.