Comment by matheusmoreira

GitHub Sponsors seems promising... If one somehow gains a large amount of fans. I gained one last time my work was posted here and I'm really grateful for it. I refuse to advertise my projects though. Simply because I hate ads myself.

I think the best option is to just AGPLv3 everything. You maximize freedom but still own the copyright so if corporations want your software they can simply pay for permission to use it. AGPLv3 gives us our leverage back in an ethical way.

Even asked Richard Stallman what he thought of it. His reply:

  > It is my understanding that as the copyright holders
  > they have the right to do it without any problems.
  > They leverage the AGPLv3 to make it harder for their
  > competitors to use the code to compete against them.

  I see what you mean. The original developer can engage
  in a practice that blocks coopertation.

  By contrast, using some other license, such as the ordinary GPL,
  would permitt ANY user of the program to engage in that practice.
  In a perverse sense that could seem more fair, but I think it is
  also more harmful.

  On balance, using the AGPL is better.