[mcguire]

Tl;dr: "I would like to justify my decision to dump the GPL for money."

[c0l0]

I am not sure I understand what they (the business behing "authentik") hope to gain from having their Open/Libre variant available under MIT instead of under GPLv3, when they do have a fully proprietary ("you may look at the source" or not, meh) alternative that they are trying to sell INSTEAD of the free variant? Is it because they hope that MIT-licensed software is more readily adopted by businesses, and they hope to get their foot in more doors for their proprietary "premium" version that way? Or is there something else/in addition to that that I cannot see?

[nottorp]

But MIT is even less restrictive for a competitor.

What I'm guessing is they had external contributors so the thing was about getting them to relicense under MIT.

[mynegation]

Money looks like a perfectly good reason to me.

[ta8645]

It is, but just be honest with yourself about it, if you make that decision.