>The overarching problem with expecting companies to pay for open-source is that they don’t have to. Exactly this. Take the cURL program, as mentioned in the a

>The overarching problem with expecting companies to pay for open-source is that they don’t have to. Exactly this. Take the cURL program, as mentioned in the article. The license [1] states: >Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. So, if an organization is free to use something, then you get upset that you don't get paid for it, why not just adopt a different license? Build a model where they have to pay for it? [1]: https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/COPYING https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/COPYING