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1. Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jul-2020 19:36:09 UTC Charles U. Farley

   Most "open source" teaserware schemes either use a permissive license or use a copyleft license and rely on copyright assignment to enable dual-licensing.

   If they use a permissive license, just create an AGPL fork and encourage people to contribute there instead of upstream.

   If they use a copyleft license that's not AGPL compatible, you don't need any license change, because contributions to your fork won't require copyright assignment.

   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
   • Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jul-2020 19:41:55 UTC Charles U. Farley

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     There are licenses that won't work with either scheme, but I don't think any of them are widely considered "open source". At best they're called "source-available". Those projects should probably just be avoided.

     Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.