I’ve started the CGF some years ago to learn Godot and to provide something to the community. I even made a few FOSS games with it.
Sadly my work with my other FOSS projects and the fediverse doesn’t give me enough time to keep it up to date and to migrate it to Godot 4 and since the engine is picking up a ton of speed, I think it’s a shame people have to keep rediscovering the card game wheel.
I know a lot of people avoid it due to the AGPL3 license, so I am thinking of switching to an MIT license instead in the hopes that others will help carry the torch until I find time to circle back to it. There’s always pitfalls with MIT of course, such as some company trying to enclose it and sell it as a service, but perhaps peer pressure would be enough of a deterrent at this time.
Anyway. Just opening this up for discussion.
There are many companies that violate the GPL by not sharing their modified code on redistribution. Eventually they comply on request or lawsuit (in thanks to the Software Freedom Conservancy). It’s not the contribution OP is after (direct project interaction) but I consider getting access to their changes to be °giving back to the community°.
If it’s one dude not contributing back I ain’t that worrried but if it’s a big company then that ain’t good. It’s doing free work which could have been paid for (if not to yourself then to someone else doing the work for pay). Also, I value software freedom so I consider proprietary software to be harmful in of itself.