[orra]

I think that's a little too reductive—foo.txt wasn't a real app.

Nonetheless, I agree with your broad point: that if somebody can use it under the GPL, they can redistribute it and then all those downstream users can use it under the GPL.

But I disagree there is anything to fix. It's copyleft FOSS but businesses are encouraged to buy a license. Everybody wins.

[rgj]

Ok, foo.sh then.

He needs to fix it - if he wants his license to enforce being paid for commercial use.

[keepamovin]

Thanks, we will fix if wrong. Tho...

It may be too late!

Other products in this: Qt - https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/licensing.html, Isotope - https://github.com/metafizzy/isotope#license

What do you suggest?

[josephcsible]

My suggestion would be to license it under the AGPLv3+ for everyone, and then continue to sell commercial licenses to anyone who wants an alternative to the AGPL. Most corporations will refuse to use that license even though they're allowed to (e.g., https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...) and it's 100% FOSS.

[keepamovin]

I think the confusion over the licensing definitely indicates there is an opportunity for us to communicate better about this.

In terms of there being an actual better solution, though? I don't know. We're doing what other products are doing.

We remain open to that possibility there could be a better solution tho. But we haven't yet seen anything to convince us we're not on the money as we are.

[orra]

> if he wants his license to enforce being paid for commercial use.

Then it wouldn't be open source, so I am not rooting for that.

However, for better or worse, large successful businesses can be built on scaring companies to pay for a commercial proprietary license and/or support, for copyleft open source.