I don't think this really represents the full spectrum of beliefs for why people open-source their work. Some of us just fundamentally disagree with the copyrig

I don't think this really represents the full spectrum of beliefs for why people open-source their work. Some of us just fundamentally disagree with the copyright system in general and OS or public domain is more of a "non-participation" If someone wants to put their work in the public domain and only leave a note in their README that they don't want this to be used for profit and then complain when a company uses it a way they don't like then I 100% agree and support them. This is the problem with laws and rules. They tend to replace independent moral thought. Instead of asking whether it was right or wrong for that company to use it without the consent of the author, we all get stuck on "well, technically". There's a difference between legal rights and morals. tl;dr: Some people choose not to participate in the copyright system simply because they wanna push back against us offshoring our abilities to think critically about morals to regulatory bodies. Open source isn't "an act of charity". It's a lot of things to a lot of people