It's the most honourable way, but kiss goodbye to recognition and money. Somebody will slap a UI/app on top of it and get all the credit and get paid for it. It

It's the most honourable way, but kiss goodbye to recognition and money. Somebody will slap a UI/app on top of it and get all the credit and get paid for it. It's one of the paradoxes of free software/open source. AGPL fixes this somewhat but it just makes it practically not profitable for everybody involved.