We decided to go all in on open source.  Given our history, anything but a &quot;here ya go&quot; license wasn&#x27;t going to go over well.  We&#x27;re aware that someone could fork it and compete against us, good on them if they can.  Making money in this space isn&#x27;t easy and if they can do better than us we&#x27;ll ask &#x27;em for a job.  We know the source base :)<p>As to why that license, I think it was because LLVM or clang or both had recently picked that and all the lawyers at all the big companies liked that one.  We don&#x27;t particularly care, if everyone yells that it should have been GPL we&#x27;ll fork it and relicense it under the GPL.  Our thought was that Apache is well respect and even more liberal than the GPL but we can be convinced otherwise.