If you expect money or compensation for your hard work, charge money and have a commercial license. Plenty of open source developers do this and make a living.

If you expect money or compensation for your hard work, charge money and have a commercial license. Plenty of open source developers do this and make a living. It just seems disingenuous to me to give out your work for free, with little to no strings attached, and then expect companies to either give back or pay you money. This isn't really what the open source movement is all about. I've contributed to and release many libraries as open source. There are many companies using it, for free, and not giving me anything in return. I really don't care, because I just wanted to release something that anybody could use. I feel like the movement is starting to turn from giving code away for free to all..to giving code away to only be used in the way I see fit.