[culo]

That's why we need more open source under MIT license in the API space.

Fast growing OSS projects like KONG [1] for API management or Strongloop are a way to avoid to invest in technologies that are not fully open or usable under the right license.

[1] https://github.com/mashape/kong

[spiralpolitik]

I'd go further and add that the API should be under some governance framework so that a single entity cannot make unilateral changes to the API.