7 posts filed under open-source.
Three months after publishing our open source rationale, here is the honest count: 14 external issues and 4 human pull requests this quarter, an all-time merge record written in two days by one contributor, and the requests we have not said yes to.
Why VisorCraft keeps splitting its catalog into small, focused, single-purpose projects instead of merging them into one suite, and the one place a suite is actually the right answer.
The honest version of what VisorCraft open sources and what stays closed: the rule fits in one sentence, and the interesting part is where the sentence bends.
Four VisorCraft repos are forks of upstream projects, and each has a different relationship to its upstream, because a fork is a tool with several legitimate uses rather than a declaration of war.
Every VisorCraft app ships GPL-3.0-only, and the choice was made deliberately against LGPL and against dual licensing, because copyleft is the whole point of publishing.
Compare Beekeeper Studio's approachable SQL client with Mongrel's broader workbench for databases, terminals, containers, Kubernetes, APIs, and team connection workflows.
We keep dozens of public repositories under GPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, and MIT. Here is some of what we open source, and the one thing we don't.
