| ▲ | bethekidyouwant 3 hours ago | |
lol or what? How do you make people do a thing, anything, 20 years later? | ||
| ▲ | bostik 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Code escrow. You factor in the expense of having your code releases escrowed by a third party (where part of the escrow contract itself is: "must be buildable from sources as provided"), and have a post-release pipeline that automatically uploads the new version. At the end of the term, the escrow holder releases all the versions. This is a fairly common arrangement in high finance. If you want to supply services to a bank/insurer/etc. they will typically require an escrow arrangement as a contingency plan against you as a vendor going away. And yes, they pay the escrow costs. | ||
| ▲ | wky 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
There are countries that require published material to be submitted to a national archive[0]. A similar system could be done for software source code and made public on expiry. | ||