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Re:Open Source is not dead: On the recent demise of RethinkDB by paxcoder on Friday October 21, 2016 @06:30PM (#12765478)
The fact that copyleft only kicks in when derivatives are distributed(GPL) or served(AGPL) indeed renders unviable selling copies of software. But I don't see how you could enable usage licensing without compromising most user "freedoms". This is certainly what "OSS-NC" would do, in contrast to even AGPL's copyleft. Instead, I think we would do better shifting the paradigm to the "pay per patch" model.

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