It seems odd to me to have the solution completely within my power to fix, but not fix it, and complain about the situation.
In my view, the license is specifically made to allow reselling. That’s why I pick MIT, Apache, and BSD. If I don’t want people to resell then I pick GPL or some other license.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
(And GNU even encourages it.)
See also about selling exceptions to GPL, like Qt does :
What I meant is that releasing software under a license that doesn’t reflect what I want and the complaining will just lead to frustration.
This seems like a simple problem to solve, just release under whatever license I want. This faker.js project is released under MIT. The author can continue development under some non-OSS license and I think that will make him happier because rich people would stop using it. But I don’t think it will make him the income he wants.
I think the problem is that non-OSS licenses will result in people just not using the project, not that rich people will start shelling out.
As a small business, I would avoid these licenses as well because having multiple licenses kick in at different levels will be confusing and expensive. I’d rather use OSS or just buy commercial products.
> As a small business, I would avoid these licenses as well because having multiple licenses kick in at different levels will be confusing and expensive. I’d rather use OSS or just buy commercial products.
You could just license it from the start and not have to worry about the license kicking in, though.
It seems like his current take is just seeking patronage to keep working on an MIT project.
I think this happens quite a bit, but not normally this way. There are lots of companies who employ people with the sole purpose of writing for MIT/Apache/BSD projects. So I guess that’s a form of patronage.
I hope this guy gets what he likes. I’ve never heard of this project, but it has at least 26k people who liked it enough to star it on GitHub. Not sure how that will ever equate to 100k+/year.