[opqpo]

Never understood the obsession of OSI and their insisting to not give any protection for the authors. Authors whether individuals or companies should have the right to prevent their work from being rebranded or sold by others with minor or even major modification.

How many times did it happen that somebody or organization wrote a complex piece of software and published it and found that some companies just rebranded it and even sold their work with little to none added value while the original authors don't even have the right to complain because this is how open source works.

Something like BSL https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/ needs to get more reputation among solo developers and small companies with little to no funding that believe in the power of open source while believing also in having the right of earning a living from their own work.

[zozbot234]

> should have the right to prevent their work from being rebranded or sold by others

Nope, the right to fork, and to rebrand concurrently with a fork, is critical to FLOSS development. Even MariaDB itself is a fork.

[opqpo]

I am not against forking or introducing modifications, etc.... You can fork it, change it for your use case as you wish, but just don't bundle my work, rebrand it and sell it as if it were yours. I meant my work to be free and I want the legal protection to keep my work free.