I wrote a medium size program for chip design and released it under the #AGPL. In this field the world is moving towards cloud services.
Now a research group wants to contribute. Google promises to pay them - but only if I change the licence to something else. Google does not like the APGL. If I don't change the licence a group of students will rewrite the tool. (Likely under a permissive licence.)
What would you do?
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Something else: adopt the #HackingLicense http://www.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
As an alternative, stay with #AGPLv3.
The choice is:
- let #Google exploit your work as #FreeLabour, or
- force Google to pay to compete with you but starting from scratch
Never let the bully get what they want.
