[syrrim]

A better link might the google doc explaining in detail:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kiW9qmNlJ9oQZM6r5o4_N54s...

>A major obstacle in getting financial support is most companies don't have an internal process to start funding an open-source project. If they need to buy a license, that's fine, that's part of their usual business. But supporting (or giving money away to) "free" software is almost impossible. It raises too many questions at every level of management. What is the accounting item it should be categorized to? Is there any legal implication? Who can approve it in the first place? And last but not least, why do they have to do it if it's available for free?

I would think you could work around many of these problems without going source-available. You could simply sell licenses to people despite already handing out an open source license for free (the sqlite approach iirc). Since the project is apparently otherwise AGPL licensed, I would think businesses would be quite open to receiving a normal commercial license instead. To sweeten the deal further, you could come up with some list of enterprise features that would be uniquely available in the commercial variant.

As a risk of using the BSL, I would cite the danger of the project becoming less popular among average developers, an effect that might compound in the long term ultimately killing the project. I don't personally use mold, so I don't know how strong this effect would be.