On: Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses

[imtringued]

Someone with more money than you can do a proprietary clean room reimplementation.

[vorg → imtringued]

@AnaniasAnanas: And someone with less money than you can use your software source code "as a reference" when writing their own open source reimplementation. They won't put your name in the copyright notice because they didn't use any of your code, they only used your code "as a reference" when writing their own.

[AnaniasAnanas → imtringued]

So I will force them to waste money compared to if I used a more permissive license? Sounds good. Plus I could offer proprietary licenses this way.