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Re:Why I replaced MIT with copyleft license for Nodemailer by wmf on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:03PM (#13555807)
The open source version acts as advertising for the paid version. It also allows programmers to imagine that they will get paid (without even having to do "business stuff" like marketing) and get open source cred at the same time. This rarely works but the other open source business models never work, so it's the leader.

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