My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
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CTO at Authentik Security Inc
There’s been a lot of discussion about licensing in the news, with Red Hat and now Hashicorp notably adjusting their licensing models to be more “business friendly,” and Codecov (proudly, and mistakenly) pronouncing they are now “open source.”
“Like the rest of them, they have redefined ‘Open’ as in ‘Open for business’”—jquast on Hacker News
This is a common tension when you’re building commercially on top of open source, so I wanted to share some reflections from my own experience of going from MIT, to GPL, back to MIT.
