Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don’t cough up for the open source code that they use.
The signs are the work of the Open Source Pledge – a group that launched earlier this month. It asks businesses that make use of open source code to pledge $2,000 per developer to support projects that develop the code. So far, 25 companies have signed up – but project co-founder Chad Whitacre wants bigger firms to pay their dues, too.
Which licence is open source but demands payment from companies if they use it?
There are licenses that allow for free non-commercial/personal use but paid business use.
Do you have an example? I am pretty sure that a FOSS license which requires companies to pay is impossible.
Open Source guarantees that anyone can give the software to a company for free:
And it guarantees that the company can then use it freely:
Quotes from the Open Source Definition.
Sorry, you may be right; I was just thinking of licensing in general.
None. Those things are incompatible with each other.