news.ycombinator.com• 2d ago• 1 min read
Ask HN: How about delayed MIT/GPL?One way a company can protect an open-source product from large cloud providers is to restrict the license to forbid some commercial uses, typically offering the software as a service.The community and programmers in general almost always dislike these moves.One thing I have seen little discussion of is clauses like: "after N years, this license becomes MIT/GPL."To me, this seems to solve most of the practical issues, while obviously doing little to address software-freedom or boiling-frog concerns.Do you agree? Would such a clause change your opinion?