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Would you prefer the commons clause, or SSPL, or the business source license?

• mdaniel 4y ago
  Well, a tiny bit because then I'd know the author had absolutely no interest in being a participant in the open source community and just wanted free labor. The AGPL license decision I believe is made in good faith, sharing the code as well as the rights to the community. The AGPL choice just means (from my perspective) that the code was _almost_ open enough that I could use it or maybe even contribute fixes for edge cases I run into, versus those "source available" where I can just immediately close the window -- or, I guess, pedantically, it means I can check back on the project in 5 years or whatever the "license change cliff" is nowadays