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That's not FOSS. All you'll do is guarantee that no one will contribute to your project and will just wait for someone else to make their own FOSS version, or encourage corporations to write their own version in-house.
I think we're far from solutions to ensuring money from FOSS goes to contributors, but moving to licenses that enforce it at the expense of the projects themselves is naïve at best
By now I get that FOSS mostly implies free work for corporations. I‘ll just go with agpl to ensure they get nothing from my work.
Sure. The point being though that companies will explicitly avoid projects that expect payment except for very specific circumstances.
And, as much as corporations get the work for "free", so do other free software projects who will also explicitly avoid anything that adds further costs to their own work.
If you're that afraid of someone getting your software for free then you might as well make your project proprietary because you're misunderstanding, fundamentally, how FOSS works.
I use GQIS and OSM professionally. My company also contributes to both projects. You WANT companies to adopt free software because they'll put resources into improving it, which improves it for everyone.
Are they doing it to make money? Yep.
But it's good for the product and every user of the product. It allows hobbysts and individual users to benefit from corporate resources without ever giving the corporations money or data.
I get it. My point was that profitseeking and charity dont mix well imo.
Open Source software isn't charity. It's a group effort that anyone can use.