[Bigbang-dev] Licensing and private sector use

[Sebastian Benthall]

Hello,

I am now tentatively planning to work in the private sector starting this
summer.

I wanted to take the opportunity now to raise questions about the future of
the project.

A practical reality is this: while some time ago we gave BigBang an
Affero-GPL license in order to save it from corruption by private
interests, in all likelihood that move would prevent me from working much
on BigBang from within a private company.

Currently, for my consulting work on topics like BigBang, I have settled
this by using/building parallel tools. That redundancy was not super
efficient, but preserved certain political interests. I have been able to
work on BigBang on "academic time".

I see ways I could potentially work with and contribute to BigBang in what
I anticipate to be my next role, *if* the license changed to be more
"business friendly" (MIT License, for example).

I don't feel comfortable making a call to change license myself, as I am
facing a rather personal change in priorities that I don't expect others to
follow. It is what it is, and I wanted to alert the community about it.

Thanks,
Seb
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