> I would argue, however, that other companies choosing to replicate Cypress's service with Cypress's (open source) project is in bad taste.
If you don't want people using your open source project in a particular way, then license it appropriately to forbid that.
Go relicense it under AGPL or one of the other "don't compete with us" licenses like BSL. It's confusing because this is just the obvious choice for Cypress to do here. Opting to add postinstall DRM to restrict who uses your otherwise open source software is a bizzare move.
If you don't want people using your open source project in a particular way, then license it appropriately to forbid that.
Go relicense it under AGPL or one of the other "don't compete with us" licenses like BSL. It's confusing because this is just the obvious choice for Cypress to do here. Opting to add postinstall DRM to restrict who uses your otherwise open source software is a bizzare move.