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Hey Ivan, usually what happens to this kind of a project is corporation knocks to your door and offers a pile of cash you can't reject. Since your project isn't libre open source, it would be nice if you can consider this option. Photopea is great! And it covers all my needs. I would like to teach my son using your product. But I want to be sure that one day I won't see Adobe logo at the top.

Open source under licenses like AGPLv3 will prevent other companies/developers using it for generating the revenue without full source code disclosure (and you'll be able to sell exceptions).

Unfortunately, nowadays the threat of acquiring and killing the product is more realistic than ever.



> this kind of a project is corporation knocks to your door and offers a pile of cash you can't reject

I hope that actually does happen for Ivan. Wouldn't that be a great outcome for him? He spent a considerable amount of time on it.


Sure. But I'm speaking from the user's perspective. Who knows, maybe it's important for Ivan what small little people are concerned about.




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