| > Doesn't really happen with Openssh. Who is the big player dominating revenue from OpenSSH? Projects with extremely diffuse benefit like that (or, perhaps more clearly, OpenSSL) do often have a problem here, but that's not what Commons Clause claims to be directed at. > Or MySQL or Postgres for that matter. Postgres definitely gets lots of support from significant commercializers of Postgres like EnterpriseDB, Postgres Pro, Citus, and Heroku. MySQL, maybe not, but a GPL arrangement, especially one requiring copyright assignment, discourages third-party commercial contributions, especially when the owner is actively dual-licensing. Who wants to pay for development of IP someone else can sell more freely than you can? (Permissively-licensed SQLite, OTOH, has huge contributions for downstream commercial users.) > With Open Source there are a lot more takers than givers. By design. There are also more givers than with propietary-licensed software, also by design. |