I used to be a Copyleft zealot. Thanks to the emergence of AWS and GCP, I’ve come around to being OK with licenses like Elastic, and if I start a software compa

I used to be a Copyleft zealot. Thanks to the emergence of AWS and GCP, I’ve come around to being OK with licenses like Elastic, and if I start a software company in the future, I wouldn’t rule out protecting myself by licensing critical parts of my code with Elastic or a similar license. I don’t even agree that these kinds of licenses are inherently “anti-FOSS”, but I do object to them being portrayed as actual FOSS licenses. “Source-available” is a reasonably well-defined term that should be used more often in these kinds of situations. Edit: “You’re either with us or against us” is corrosive whether it’s in war, politics, software licensing, or any other realm.