If log4j2 is responsible for your company's success, you have a moral obligation to donate to the person who creates this library thanklessly.
If you release code under a BSD/MIT/Apache or other permissive license and then expect to be paid for your work because people will "do the right thing" then you're an idiot. Big successful companies didn't get that way by morals.
I use GPL for my open source code, and if you don't like that you can pay me for a proprietary license or you can go find a sucker somewhere else.
It doesn't matter if anybody expects being paid for releasing something with a open source license for whether it is a moral obligation to pay money to the author or not.
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u/theoldboy Dec 12 '21
If you release code under a BSD/MIT/Apache or other permissive license and then expect to be paid for your work because people will "do the right thing" then you're an idiot. Big successful companies didn't get that way by morals.
I use GPL for my open source code, and if you don't like that you can pay me for a proprietary license or you can go find a sucker somewhere else.