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I didn't mean to present it as if it's immoral to choose a license that excludes Googlers. The maintainer should be free to choose whatever license meets their

I didn't mean to present it as if it's immoral to choose a license that excludes Googlers. The maintainer should be free to choose whatever license meets their goals. Out of personal self-interest, I want to maximize the number of people who are eligible to contribute to my project. If it's unlikely for anyone to use my code to compete against me or form a different business without compensating me, I default to a permissive license because it allows more people to contribute.

enriquto 6y ago
> a license that excludes Googlers. This is not the case. The AGPL license does not exclude googlers. It's Google that excludes googlers.
eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> choose a license that excludes Googlers This is entirely google's decision. It's obviously not a decision made to help FLOSS or FLOSS developers. > Out of personal self-interest, I want to maximize the number of people who are eligible to contribute to my project. I don't want to maximize the number of organizations taking my software, locking it down, renaming it and ultimately competing AGAINST my user community.