I understand your concerns about the license, but our goal was simply to prevent large corporations from taking our work, forking it, and offering it to their customers while we struggle to sustain development. We need to monetize our work in order to survive, though we do offer very generous commercial licenses for those who are interested.
Why not release the source under AGPL (where 'network use' counts as distribution, unlike GPL), and offer commercial licences for those who want more favourable terms?
The maintainer of libxml2, Nick Wellnhofer, will be moving all his future contributions over to an AGPL fork as corporate users of libxml2 were unwilling to contribute financially.
