When Speckle started back in 2015, as part of Dimitrie’s research at UCL The Bartlett School of Architecture, the choice of licensing it under a permissive open source license followed naturally from the setting in which the project was created: a consortium of academic and industry stakeholders, financed by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, and tasked with the shared mission of moving the architecture, engineering and construction industry forward.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://speckle.systems/blog/opensource-aec-speckle