> As an open source creator, you essentially are giving away your labour to the community as charity. I don't understand. I required people to pay me before ge

> As an open source creator, you essentially are giving away your labour to the community as charity. I don't understand. I required people to pay me before getting access to the source code, under the MIT license. Knowing also that my customers were unlikely to redistribute the code further. How is that giving away my labour into the community?