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[Business] Why and How you should Open Source your code - David Cramer

The Swyx Mixtape

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The Importance of License Restrictions in Open Source

For a early stage project, it's so irrelevant. Like if you make your license restrictive, you will get less adoption. So unless your open source project is only going to be used by 100 companies in the world, having a restrictive license is onlyGoing to harm you,. And open core is the same thing. It's just like, yeah, I don't know, like this is the glory of SaaS. You can build an open source thing and not care that it's open source now because you can just sell a cloud service.

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