Egypt had 66,000 Jews before 1948. A peace agreement was reached in 1979. Yet almost none came back to live in Egypt. Jews and Israelis were very afraid to live in Egypt after the peace.

Only in recent years A-Sisi started to do some work to replenish synagogoues and care for the country's very long Jewish legacy, probably as part of his policy against extremism.

A Two-State solution could work in some constellation. a one state solution I see as leading to massacre and banishment of most of the Jews in the land.

OTOH, I want to offer companies etc to buy a private version of the product, where they could use it internally without giving access to the rest of the world, and enjoy more business oriented features, integrations etc. The commercial product should also help fund and develop the non-commercial one.

I was trying to figure if the core product shouls use a GPL style license or a more permissive one like MIT. I think a permissive license will make it easier to include functionality from the open version.

Im afraid that if I use GPL I will need to have contributors sign a copyright waiver or something like in Emacs if I want to include their code in an extended closed source version.

Sometimes companies use GPL for their products to prevent competitors from taking their code without contributing back, but I think that in this type of product the community could be the differentiating value so there is less worry about this kind of risk.

Does it make sense? Is there a different license/model I should consider?

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Israel is a small country with very few degrees of separation between people.

The communities attacked are highly organized, hate the current government,somewhat critical of the establishment, and closely connected to the highest ranks in the IDF. Including some generals. And also connected to many of the fighters who were there on the ground.

There is absolutely zero chance that the army would kill many people and that it would be kept hidden from the families and the public in large.

Also, Hamas was not merely taking hostages, but spraying people with bullets and setting houses on fire with families in them. So your SWAT team dillema means nothing, as the army had no other option other then engaging with the enemy as fast as possible. The fact that in many places special forces were indeed sent to carefuly deal with hostage situations is being criticised as it may have wasted time in which the Hamas was killing more people, and people who were trapped in their homes got choked or burned.

The better strategy may have been to charge at the terrorists, as their numbers and whereabouts were unknown and while some were holding hostages others were still moving around in cars or by foot looking for hostages to take or victims to kill.

The only confirmed friendly fire case during October 7 that I personally read about was a tank that entered into a fire exchange with Hamas hostage takers.

40 terrorists and 15 hostages were surrounded in a house at Be'eri, Firing at IDF and police forces that surrounded the house.

After a failed negotiation in which the Hamas commander alone surrenderd with one hostage, fighting resumed.

The Hamas members were firing with guns and RPGs at the tank and nearby forces.

The Tank fired two shells at the house killing the terrorists and all but 1 of the remaining hostages.

This is the Hebrew wikipedia page about the battle. https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%AA_%D7%9...