Yeah, this happen sometime and it’s something that have precedence historically specifically Amazon’s fork of Elastic Search. Basically, this is what raise the issue of making a project open source. I fundamentally disagree on the #6 definition of Open Source which is:

“6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor - The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.”

We ought to have some imposed restrictions on commercial businesses and unethical organizations from using our free/open source software that forbid them from taking advantage of us. I’m all ear for further discussion on this, this been something that on my mind for a while. I have A LOT of projects that would be a benefit to overall open source community, but the biggest problem is with the open source licensing that is simply too permissive and open to exploitation from existing corporations/companies that may use my projects against my community like the Linux Community.