> When a startup exits, should they contribute financially to the open source devs that helped them build that startup? I dont think there is an argument for O

> When a startup exits, should they contribute financially to the open source devs that helped them build that startup? I dont think there is an argument for Open Source licenses to include a caveat like that. But I do think it should be considered as "good form". Perhaps not money - but as I commented on the Zed Shaw thread something saying "we used X, it's awesome check it out". Because the whole point is if it was useful to them it is useful to others! I think more serious recognition is nice too (look at Google hiring Python's BDFL. Or Facebook open sourcing portions of it's "support structure" code base) but shouldnt be required.