You just can’t win with some folks and I honestly don’t think it’s worth the effort to try. You remain proprietary, they’ll complain. You open-source what you can with a reasonable enough license that protects you and allows you maintain a business atop your product, they’ll complain. You build it with zero venture backing and you’ll be begging for support and donations to keep building the product.

I appreciate that folks like y’all take the risk to build dope products and still do your part to open-source what you can. In an ideal world, everything would be open-source (by purist standards) with ultra-permissive licenses, but that’s, unfortunately, not the world we currently live in.