[moepstar]

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/

And yes, being paid should always be an option.

The only question seemingly no one has solved is: how?

...especially so that everybody wins - individuals and corporations, benefitting from said software, the maintainers _and_ their collaborators (sidenote: that's something that kinda grinds my gears - sponsored projects receive all the dough, with their various collaborators essentially working for free??) etc. etc.

[phoronixrly]

My best tool to benefit corporations is to release my code under the AGPL. Always. No exceptions.

[aaomidi]

It is solved. It’s called AGPL.

Folks are just ignorant of licensing the majority of the time. GPL is why Linux is still around :)

[bluGill]

The continued existance of bsd proves you are wrong, it isn't the license.

[dartos]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the popularity of Linux helps BSD as well