> Last, but not least important, I want to avoid AWS-like predators from taking the project, shoving the "Elastic" prefix, hosting it and profiting from my work

> Last, but not least important, I want to avoid AWS-like predators from taking the project, shoving the "Elastic" prefix, hosting it and profiting from my work (making it extremely difficult for me to be able to compete and economically benefit from my own work). > I fear that using any of these will automatically attract hate and disdain to my project, dooming it from day 1. A lot of people here will feel that way unless your project is MIT/GPL/a blessed OSI license from the start. Its basically impossible to please them unless you do this, so you need to chose one or the other here. I will say a lot of the distain is due to projects changing their licenses later on (aka a rug pull), rather than from the start.