> Open Source and permissive licenses like MIT and Apache bring freedom but don’t protect the business. Companies can try to benefit from it in a predatory way [...]<p>I get that this post is about choosing a certain non-Free license, but it seems <i>very</i> weird to me to describe businesses leveraging the permissive terms of permissive licenses as "predatory" behavior. Permissive licenses were created in response to hereditary licenses like the GPL <i>specifically</i> to allow the kind of behavior that the author is referring to as "predatory". Blaming anyone but yourself for choosing to license your code with a license designed to enable behavior you don't like seems quite silly.<p>> Other organizations seek protection by adopting AGPLv3, which many companies have policies against, and selling dual licenses and enterprise features. Those businesses are often referred to as Open Core.<p>Open core is related to, but not the same as the dual licensing pattern they are describing. Open core is basically the same as dual licensing, but the different licenses actually apply to different sets of software under the Open core model.