alt Hacker NewsServer Side Public License? Since it demands any company offering the project as a paid product/service to also open source the related infrastructure, the bigger companies end up creating a maintained fork with a more permissive license. See ElasticSearch -> OpenSearch, Redis -> Valkey
Inflicting pain is most likely worth it in the long run. Those internal projects now have to fight for budget and visibility and some won't make it past 2-5 years.