> However, there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals, without providing material contributions back.
Vendors like Hashicorp, that take advantage of contributors who give away their work(PRs) under the MPL, only to then have this work relicensed to a different license?
Hashicorp could just request the source code from those "vendors" (after all, the MPL has copyleft) and integrate their changes. (They have to be users first but this shouldn't be that big of a problem).
I wonder who the freeloader really is. CLAs should not be accepted. Ever.
Vendors like Hashicorp, that take advantage of contributors who give away their work(PRs) under the MPL, only to then have this work relicensed to a different license?
Hashicorp could just request the source code from those "vendors" (after all, the MPL has copyleft) and integrate their changes. (They have to be users first but this shouldn't be that big of a problem).
I wonder who the freeloader really is. CLAs should not be accepted. Ever.