Re: The Bounty License

While I applaud this concept, it is extremely problematic, specifically in
putting all the risk onto the content creator. Maybe that is not too much
of a risk for a developer building code, but it is significantly different
for a film producer.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:19 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 23:22, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
> wrote:
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>> Following up with an idea on "how can we fund things in this ecosystem".
>> The concept of bounties came up.
>>
>> Here's a simple concept:
>>
>> Release software, documentation, and specifications under a "Bounty
>> License".
>>
>> The license states that the content is free for non-commercial use and
>> sets a bounty price to transition the license into a FOSS license.
>>
>> For example, libvc is a Verifiable Credentials library in C++. It is
>> under a bounty license of $50K, if the bounty is paid, it moves to BSD
>> 3-clause license. I can imagine three companies joining in and paying
>> that bounty because it reduces implementation risk for them, and they
>> get the software at a fraction of the cost of developing and maintaining
>> it themselves. The upside is that the developer is paid for their effort
>> vs. what happens today (leeching).
>>
>> This is easiest for software... harder for things like documentation,
>> videos, etc. Information that once it's out, it's out, is more
>> difficult. So, for those items, previews are released and the full
>> version is only released once the bounty is paid.
>>
>> Bounty prices would have to be above market rates... because the content
>> creator took on considerable risk in creating the content.
>>
>> -- manu
>>
>> PS: I know there are some things that may be better paid for up front,
>> and we can still do that in parallel to the suggestion above.
>>
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> love it!
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>>
>> --
>> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
>> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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>>
>>

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