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Tl;dr: "I would like to justify my decision to dump the GPL for money."
by mcguire 3y ago
Tl;dr: "I would like to justify my decision to dump the GPL for money."
- mynegation 3y agoMoney looks like a perfectly good reason to me.
- ta8645 3y agoIt is, but just be honest with yourself about it, if you make that decision.
- c0l0 3y agoI am not sure I understand what they (the business behing "authentik") hope to gain from having their Open/Libre variant available under MIT instead of under GPLv3, when they do have a fully proprietary ("you may look at the source" or not, meh) alternative that they are trying to sell INSTEAD of the free variant? Is it because they hope that MIT-licensed software is more readily adopted by businesses, and they hope to get their foot in more doors for their proprietary "premium" version that way? Or is there something else/in addition to that that I cannot see?
- nottorp 3y agoBut MIT is even less restrictive for a competitor. What I'm guessing is they had external contributors so the thing was about getting them to relicense under MIT.