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I'm sorry but I don't buy that. The arguments between Free Software licenses, open source licenses, proprietary licenses in in all their myriad flavors have be

I'm sorry but I don't buy that. The arguments between Free Software licenses, open source licenses, proprietary licenses in in all their myriad flavors have been raging in hacker and startup circles for literally decades now. GPL 2 is 33 years old(!). A developer would have to have been living under a rock to be unaware that their license choice directly impacts their ability to monetize their code and, even if they were that negligent, whoever was funding their startup would have warned them.

LoganDark 2y ago
> A developer would have to have been living under a rock to be unaware that their license choice directly impacts their ability to monetize their code That's basically exactly what I'm trying to point out though. Many developers make the determination that they don't want or need to monetize their code. Then someone else does it and then they feel it is unfair. I consider this a perfectly valid way to feel and I don't really consider it a skill issue at the time of choosing the license.