Re: Licensing a component doesn't work
"Or stupidity to write an open source variant?"
How is that stupid? Maybe it's stupid if you also write a closed-source version and expect to sell it, but that wasn't the case here. So somehow it's stupid to decide that you would prefer to spend some time writing a new version and giving it to the community than to buy a license for the alternative? If you want the tool and you don't want to pay for a license, reimplement it.