Re: The Bounty License

Have you successfully crowd-funded before? Because I have, and I have
coached people through it. It's not pretty or easy and there is no way I am
ever doing that kind of fundraising again.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:51 AM Adam Lake <alake@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> HI Heather,
>
> One way to approach this could be to produce a proposal for the work
> product and put a bounty on it to be prefunded. Otherwise know as
> crowdfunding, :)
>
> It might be a good idea to circulate the proposal prior to the funding
> phase to get feedback from the community as to how the proposal could be
> modified to attract the bounty being requested.
>
> This could reduce your, and others, risk, as well as increase the value to
> the community. Just a thought.
>
> Adam
>
> On 10/17/2018 6:24 PM, heather vescent wrote:
>
> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 23:22, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> love it!
>>
>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>
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