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Perhaps I can summarize: "I want free help for a product I can sell. I put it up on GitHub. Why aren't people giving free help to me?"

• billziss 10y ago
  I fail to understand this. Are you saying that the GPL is not an open source license?
  • voltagex_ 10y ago
    The AGPL is more restrictive than the GPL. It's a tricky choice to make.
    • billziss 10y ago
      If that is the only impediment, I will switch to GPL tomorrow. I suspect that there is more than that. I suspect that people no longer like the GPL. I am actually one of those people. My intent with WinFsp is to allow any open source project to use it without restrictions (commercial or otherwise). The only thing I want to restrict is closed source commercial uses (in which case I offer a commercial license). Unfortunately I am not aware of an open source license that is compatible with other open source licenses and does not impose any restrictions on them. The only open source licenses that I know that allow unlimited open source use, also allow unlimited closed source use (which I would like to restrict). If anyone points me to such a license I will be happy to consider it for WinFsp.
      • CiPHPerCoder 10y ago
        GPL is fine for this use case. AGPL might be considered too aggressive for some people. Don't let people bully you here though. Choose the license that makes sense for you. I think you want GPL, but that's not for me to say.
• voltagex_ 10y ago
  This is true for all (most) open source projects - so why do some attract more contributors than others?