My very first open source project was an initscript to run a headless Minecraft server. This was pre-systemd running on CentOS 6. I was just running the machine for a friend and thought others might find the script useful so I put it on GitHub. It did backups and other stuff too.
I had two Minecraft hosting companies contact me to ask if they could use it in their commercial product.
I said of course, the script is GPL, you can do what you like. If you have any problems your patches are welcome but I'm not your free tech support. (I said it a bit more politely than that)
Once your stuff is out there it's not your decision. There are open source projects suited to becoming products, and there are projects which really should never or could never become products.
My very first open source project was an initscript to run a headless Minecraft server. This was pre-systemd running on CentOS 6. I was just running the machine for a friend and thought others might find the script useful so I put it on GitHub. It did backups and other stuff too.
I had two Minecraft hosting companies contact me to ask if they could use it in their commercial product.
I said of course, the script is GPL, you can do what you like. If you have any problems your patches are welcome but I'm not your free tech support. (I said it a bit more politely than that)
Once your stuff is out there it's not your decision. There are open source projects suited to becoming products, and there are projects which really should never or could never become products.