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Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by SquishyPanda23 on Sunday December 02, 2018 @03:52PM (#18584500)
> If they aren’t open sourcing the innovations they make on top of open source software

I'm not sure I'm reading your statement correctly, but it sounds like you're saying that anything not developed under a copyleft license is proprietary.

If it was important for authors to receive contributions from derivative works, why would they have selected a license that doesn't require that?

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Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by jf- on Sunday December 02, 2018 @04:06PM (#18584558)
I don’t see how you interpreted it that way - anything released with a proprietary license, or closed source and not released at all, is proprietary. The fact that it’s derivative of an MIT or similarly licensed work makes no difference.
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Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by SquishyPanda23 on Sunday December 02, 2018 @04:31PM (#18584672)
Yes, sorry, I thought you were giving it a normative interpretation, but you were just stating a fact.

I agree that your statement is correct.

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