> should have the right to prevent their work from being rebranded or sold by others
Nope, the right to fork, and to rebrand concurrently with a fork, is critical to FLOSS development. Even MariaDB itself is a fork.
Nope, the right to fork, and to rebrand concurrently with a fork, is critical to FLOSS development. Even MariaDB itself is a fork.
If you pick a copyleft license like the (A)GPL, it's right that you allow people to sell your software, but their customers will be able to require the source code under this license and will be able make it available to the world.
Now there are loopholes like the one the company behind the GRSecurity project exploits.
If anything here is not desirable, you'll probably want to use a more restrictive license than a FLOSS one, but be careful with all the possible side effect (people not wanting to use or contribute to a non-free software, licence incompatibility with libraries and the rest of the ecosystem, etc.