If you're an open-source maintainer and either don't have a team, have a niche to small, are receiving zero compensation for the work, or some combination of th

If you're an open-source maintainer and either don't have a team, have a niche to small, are receiving zero compensation for the work, or some combination of those things, at this point in my life I believe it's best to either use a strong copy left license like the (A/L)GPL (only use LGPL for libraries, never anything else), or just stay closed source. The problem with permissive licenses is that they do nothing for the people actually developing the software, and makes it extremely likely that others will profit off their back without ever pushing even a line of code upstream. People will try to guilt you into changing licenses so they can use it in a commercial product, but seriously - if that person is going to profit off your code, you should be profiting too.