Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software?

Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by elviejo on Thursday April 21, 2022 @10:49PM (#31117678)

AGPL will protect you, your users in the future and prevent companies like Amazon from profiting from your hard work and give nothing back to the community.

See what happened to elastic search:

https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/opinion/Elas...

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Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by kamrani on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:15PM (#31117799)

Thanks, sounds like what I need. Not sure if with AGPL still I have to use a dual license approach.

Also it's very true about what happened to elastic search or was about to happen to Sentry.

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Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by elviejo on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:13PM (#31126672)

You could share with AGPL and sell the other license for companies that require another one. That was MySQL business model for several years before Oracle brought them.

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Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by elviejo on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:26PM (#31130815)

s/brought/bought/

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