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> It's almost like there's no good representation in the open-source world for the solo developer or small team.

IMHO, there is a simple solution to this - release the software under the GPL license. Then no corporation will want to touch it.




If your project is sufficiently popular, that's safe; otherwise maybe not.

As someone else mentioned, when a giant corp absorbs a free project, you can reasonably expect them to maintain it. If you GPL the project, that won't happen. But if it's a popular project, then if it's GPL it will attract more maintenance from people who can't free-ride on the corp's efforts.

(Note that the relevant measure of "popular" is not number of users, but number of people enthusiastic enough to actually contribute.)


Only if it's proper GPL3. Google and Microsoft touch linux everywhere: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...


AGPL would be more apropos in this day and age of "SaaS all the things."


https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/ They're absolutely allergic to it.




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