New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: "Free if you know how to compile it" open source license?

Ask HN: "Free if you know how to compile it" open source license?
2 by sam0x17 | 7 comments on Hacker News.
Has anyone tried setting up an open source license oriented around the idea of "it's free if you are savvy enough to compile a binary, otherwise here you can pay for a pre-compiled binary"? I feel like this could be a very interesting option for solo developers who want to monetize their open source work but want to keep things free for other developers and/or people willing to spend 5 minutes reading documentation on how to build the project. This would also encourage non-developers to dip their toes in a development environment which would be an undeniably positive thing for the community. Anyway was just wondering if at any point someone tried to set something up like this. I've been toying with adopting a model like this for one of my popular open source projects that has a _lot_ of non-programmer users and would benefit from increased participation from users in the open source process.

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