Commercial use of community provided open source software

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:08:45 +0000, erland wrote:

> I can honestly say that I personally use open source libraries
> on daily basis in my day work and I don_t think I_ve ever asked anyone
> for permission.

I don't think that is the point.

When a commercial (or similar big) party forks a (substantial) open source
project, it would be nice if they would show some gratitude, preferably in
the form of giving back bug fixes and/or enhancements. This always leads to
mutual benefit.

-- Johan