Simon Brooke<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@lolaodelola" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lolaodelola</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> maintainers deserve (and need) to be paid, if free software is to be reliably maintained as corporate users demand that it should be.</p><p>Dual licensing is one mechanism to do that.</p><p>I prefer the use of the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPL</span></a>, however, even if it deters corporate use, precisely because of its virality. Yes, corporates MAY use my work -- provided that they share theirs.</p>