Ask HN: Which open-source license should I use for my project?

• carbon

  7 141 9.8 TypeScript

  Carbon is a high-performance, open-source, single tenant (incomplete) ERP written in Typescript. It allows customers, suppliers, and employees to share a common platform that's easy to extend. (by barbinbrad)

I'm building an open-source ERP system because I think I can do some things better than the current state-of-the-art. I've went with open-source because I've been frustrated in the past when things aren't "fixable".

I'm hoping that it becomes both very good, and very useful to people. I'd also like to make money from it somehow.

What license do you recommend? I don't know much about licenses. My current best guess is AGPL v3. But I see a lot of projects I respect using MIT.

The space is currently dominated by big players like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft. There are other open-source solutions like Odoo (LGPLv3) and ERPNext (GPLv3)

Here is a link to the project: https://github.com/barbinbrad/carbon

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

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