Why I Chose the PolyForm Shield License for KSail
KSail's license changed three times in 18 months. Here's why it went from Apache-2.0 to GPL-3.0 to PolyForm Shield 1.0.0, and why I think more dev tools should consider it.
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Building KSail: From Shell Scripts to .NET to Go
The journey of building KSail through three major rewrites and what I learned along the way.