Comment by raxxorraxor

> open source projects eventually need a path to monetization.

I don't think open source projects need a path to monetization in all cases, most don't have that. But if you make such a project your main income, you certainly need money.

If you then restrict the license, you are just developing commercial software, it then has little to do with open source. Developing commercial software is completely fine, but it simply isn't open source.

There is also real open source software with a steady income and they are different than projects that change to commercial software and we should discriminate terms here.