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Please don't... we already had our scare in the past when someone handed over the JS project for something to a third party and broke the internet.

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"please don't" doesn't pay the bills. You want those people to avoid transferring the reigns for cash? Find some sustainable way to pay them. No amount of feel good platitudes will do that.

Crime isn't supposed to pay the bills either. You have no right to give away a gift and the bulglarize anyone who accepts it. If you don't want to give your work away, put a protective license on it.

While the above case is (arguably) crime. In general crime is unrelated to this issue.

As for licensing: totally agreed. I would like to see more projects with protective licensing.

Too many projects are basically donations to Amazon.

I think daenz was asking about how to sell an open-source project in general, not in a criminal way.

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