You’re likely here because you’ve discovered that I generally refuse to use open source licenses for my popular software projects, and you want to engage me in a discussion.

Here is a list of things I consider before accepting an invitation from someone to engage in a discussion about why I do not use open source software licenses.

  • Skin in the game - if you have not created, released, and maintained publicly developed software with a user base of a non-trivial size (10k+ users), you’re better off discussing software licensing in the abstract with others whose only hands-on experience is discussing software licensing in the abstract
  • Acknowledgment of open source licensing’s genocide problem
  • Proposals to address open source licensing’s genocide problem - if you do not consider open source licensing’s genocide problem to be a issue, then we don’t have any common ground for discussion