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0 pointswasmainiac2mo ago0 comments

> They could use AGPL or GPL3, typically those licenses are verboten in hyperscalers.

Laws are only as good as their enforcement, in business at least. Unfortunately I have seen first hand that no one cares about licensing if they can’t get caught.

Businesses licenses are good because you can offer support and other benefits to encourage payment.

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cxr2mo ago

> Laws are only as good as their enforcement

The claim is that those licenses are deemed no-touch within those companies—it's the companies themselves that insist on the software and their business not mixing, e.g. Apple continuing to ship old versions of GNU programs like Bash and then eventually moving to zsh rather than provide updated versions that are GPLv3.

Neither GPLv3 nor AGPLv3 say anything about businesses not being able to use the software.

surgical_fire2mo ago

Hey, nothing wrong with closed source, BSL, etc. I am fine with it. I am the last person that will say someone should give out their work for free.

What I object to is companies releasing software with permissive licenses, and then getting butthurt that others profit from it, or trying to rug pull the permissive licenses after a community adopted and contributed to it.

If you want to play the OSS game, then play it right.

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