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AGPL is the best OSS license to ensure project continuity as Open Source. That simple.

Permissive licenses allow for proprietary forks, which may become more successful than the upstream project.

AGPL would be able to benefit from any improvements from any fork, and all those will remain OSS for everyone.

Nothing written here is related in any way to monetization.



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