You make a good point. I'm not sure I'd be in a position to enforce anything myself. I would be relying on larger companies to be too risk adverse to violate the license, hoping that they would pay for a commercial option instead.
Good questions. I don't mind contributions if they don't mind the model being used. I guess I would be looking to prevent profit making forks of the code base.
I guess I like the idea of open source projects still being able to use it for free and possibly non-profits (though that might complicate things) so I don't mind those users having a near-open-source experience and source availability seems to be close to that.
Perhaps I should have more faith in the area and try to productise it but I guess I don't have the confidence in that. Though I guess that raises questions about the whole venture. Still, I think the kind of "this is available, just not to million dollar companies" isn't a crazy middle ground to aim for.
I don't think that LGPL would be a good fit for preventing use inside companies though I guess technically it might work. Though the companies are shipping the generated docs and not the project code specifically so I'm not sure that LGPL would be the way forward.
Thank you for the links. I have come across PolyForm when googling but hadn't heard of it previously and I haven't seen Faircode.io before. I'll check them out.
Interesting that you're using one in practice. N8n looks really cool too!
I've been building https://www.contact-stack.com as a way to get regular reminders to stay in touch with friends who live in other cities & countries.
It is my first attempt at a product/business and has been a good learning experience. Also a good excuse to have Elixir & Phoenix a good. Long story short, I like them but miss types.
