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Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by ThePhysicist on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:34AM (#31119209)
For standalone tools that people use in their workflows without linking them to their own code (A)GPL is mostly fine. If it's something that should be used as a library I'd use a more permissive license like BSD-3 or Apache 2.0, as otherwise you'll have adoption problems especially for larger enterprises that use proper open-source license management tools (as those will flag GPL licenses as high risk).

That said think of licensing as one part of your open-source strategy. From my experience licenses won't keep your competitors from copying your code or circumventing your license terms. The best thing is still to keep your most business-critical code closed-source.

Re:Ask HN: What license should I choose for my software? by kamrani on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:01AM (#31120179)
Fair points. It's not a library and it's actually going to be provided as a SaaS product and as you mentioned I think it's best not to share the critical parts of code. At least that's what I'm doing.