[tatjam]

You can just use the GPL, then it's free, but your labour cannot be so easily profited from by big corps

[palata]

But it can be profited for not-so-big corps, so I'm still working for free.

Also I have never received requests from TooBigTech, but I've received a lot of requests from small companies/startups. Sometimes it went as far as asking for a permissive licence, because they did not want my copyleft licence. Never offered to pay for anything though.