last I checked you have to request the source)

So you haven’t checked… Good to know you don’t know what you’re making a strong statement about.

Then suddenly someone is knocking demanding money.

No, they don’t come knocking, because you wouldn’t be using the code in your commercial product in the first place, regardless of how small it is.

Donations are not the same thing as paid licenses, and FUTO’s license is bad because it prevents you from funding your fork. But funding doesn’t mean exploitation for profit, which is what corporations like Google do with copyleft code.

Its about the community as much about the code.

Right, community != business.

I want my code to be freely used by all in the community, and I explicitly do not want a corporation to exploit my work for their profit. That’s antithetical to the concept of community.

I’m a fan of the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. In an ideal world, the GPL would be sufficient, but we don’t live in an ideal world, we live in an exploitative capitalist run world and they will do everything they can to profit off the labor of and destroy the community that develops open source software.

Fund the development of the code you spin with donations and foundations and whatever you want, but don’t charge for and make profit off others’ labor.