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So you care more about having the entire pie, than about how much pie you have? If you have a license that "permits" commercial sales in a way that by design m
by tbrownaw 10y ago
So you care more about having the entire pie, than about how much pie you have?
If you have a license that "permits" commercial sales in a way that by design makes most business models completely unfeasible... guess what? You'll only get contributions from those with one of the handful of blessed business models. Which will work or not depending on what sorts of businesses models your project is suited for.
Copyleft works fine for things like the kernel that are complementary to tons of different expensive things and nobody cares about otherwise. Permissive works well for Postgres.
- st3v3r 10y agoAt the same time, you're arguing that you should be able to take the work they've done, add to it, but not give back, despite having received a HUGE base to start with.