[_stephan]

Thanks a lot for your reply and for providing links to your previous blog entries! I wish you good luck and hope the economics will continue to work out for you.

I do think that libraries should be distributed as open source, but I'm also hoping that at least in certain areas there is a way to commercially develop them as a product business. Provocatively speaking, if software "eats the world", then libraries are too important to just be developed as a by-product of some other ventures or in support of a platform/eco system.

Personally I'm planning on releasing a library under a GPL + commercial dual licensing scheme and later on another library under a non-commercial (incl. academic and government research) + commercial dual license. We'll see how that works out.