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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by bad_user on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:44AM (#18873414)
They recently switched to a new license, inspired by AGPL, that isn’t approved by OSI and probably not Open Source.

So they are trying to eat their cake and have it too.

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by pas on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:51AM (#18883179)
It's not OSI because it places even more restrictions on usage than AGPL did, but this is very much matter of context and interpretation. If GNU would have created it it would have been welcomed by GNU-ers a lot better.

I sort of agree with their sentiment, but of course they are late to the have-cake-will-have-it-and-eaten-it-too party, as now AWS was able to fork the last AGPL-ed version and be done with it.

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