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"[we want a restrictive license that] prevents another company from starting a commercial enterprise off of it"

versus

"our terminal model code is based on Alacritty’s model code."

Well done. Sorry guys, that's where you lost me.

I understand where you're coming from.

My take is that there are plenty of commercial projects that have open source dependencies so it's not quite so black and white. That said we are still figuring out the best way to proceed on open sourcing the warp client code.

Yes there are plenty of those. And if they then blatantly state that they are not open source because they don't want somebody to build a business on their product while that's exactly what they are doing, then they lost me as well.

I really like what you guys are working on, and I'd absolutely give it a try. But this is really a deal breaker here. Make the team-oriented features proprietary that need server space and accounts and all that, open-source the rest and enable it to run offline. Maybe not tomorrow, I get that. But the moment you do this will open the dams. Until then, you'll stay in a niche.

As pointed out elsewhere, the product (with waiting list) was announced here 8 months ago where open-sourcing was suggested (privacy and security and all that), but it seems that it hasn't been important to them.

How about something like GPL?

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