In reply to Nick Haskins.

I'm not sure that's completely fair. I'm a customer/user of AffiliateWP. They released that code publicly on GitHub. I purchased this product and continue to renew my licenses even though it's publicly available for free. I am a user who absolutely sees no problem with that.

I love it because I can easily submit issues and even fix things that I find may be broken. And if you aren't a technical user the fact that it's on GitHub won't impact you in the least. Perhaps not all users will see it this way but that's a calculated decision every business owner has made.