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Mold linker may not switch to a source-available license

I received lots of responses for my mold 1.7.0 release notes and my docs post ( Hacker News , Reddit , and Phoronix ). Thank you to everyone who gave me valuable feedback! I also share many of you guys' concerns that switching to a non-open-source license would make many users away from our mold linker. Even though I reserve the right to change the license, I agree that that’s a real concern. The problem boils down to how to keep it open-source while making for-profit companies pay for it. Switching to a commercial license is an idea to make the project profitable and viable. I want to share another idea in this post to keep it open-source. The proposed scheme is based on commercial and open-source dual licensing. Here is how it works: Commercial license : We sell a commercial license on our website and provide a download link there. Let's call the commercial version of mold sold (pun intended.) mold and sold are two different products, while they work the same except the ve