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> But still, I think the permissive license we picked was the better choice. Especially after our company was formed and we want to use the project for ourself
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> But still, I think the permissive license we picked was the better choice. Especially after our company was formed and we want to use the project for ourself too the (A)GPL would make the community working together with this harder (CLA, dual licensing?)
Regardless of license, most software projects are either community projects, or corporate projects, but not both. Corporations rarely see fit to invest in the development of a project they're using because some other chump is giving it away for free. And volunteer programmers rarely want to deal with submitting commits to a project with corporate managers who are focused on the needs of the organization and see volunteer programmers as out-of-the-loop nuisances.
Whether you're a corporation open sourcing something to get free community labor, or a volunteer open sourcing something to get corporations to contribute, you'll probably be disappointed.