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I believe L0 makes your second option painless: > Customers who want permission for commercial or non-Open Source uses can identify, price, and buy licenses fo
by h34t 9y ago
I believe L0 makes your second option painless:
> Customers who want permission for commercial or non-Open Source uses can identify, price, and buy licenses for all License Zero dependencies of their Node.js projects, in one checkout transaction, using a free command-line tool
- rspeer 9y agoSetting aside the practical detail that not everything is node.js: Nobody would want to sell commercial software under the terms of "you have to license our software A, but it won't work unless you also license software B from someone else at the same time".
- lazerwalker 9y agoPresumably that's where having a single place to handle payments comes in handy. It's (hopefully?) less "well, you have to go to this other person and license their software too" as much as "here's the total cost for a license (which happens to include both A and B)"
- zokier 9y agoThere is already plenty of commercial software that depends on other commercial middleware that needs to be licensed separately. Of course licensing each and every library is typically bit different in scale, but conceptually it is pretty much the same thing.
- mperham 9y agoSure, no one's ever bought Tableau along with a Windows Server license to solve their data warehouse analytics needs.
- rspeer 9y agoYou're not describing a strict dependency. You can just buy Tableau and use it.
- lazerwalker 9y agoHuh, fascinating. Licensing software by typing in a CC# via a CLI feels like a really foreign way to pay for something. I'm curious to see if that's behavior people take to easily.
- kross 9y agoIt seems to me that you open a URL to pay for the invoice.
- jpk 9y agoAs an aside: The fact that we're talking about buying licenses for something plus all its dependencies, recursively, in the context of node.js is hilarious to me.