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Re:Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit by boltefnovor on Sunday October 04, 2020 @07:01AM (#24677985)
Has that worked in the real world?

I know some companies have had their software nabbed by other companies..... did they not use GPL?

I guess I’m thinking of elasticsearch but surely other companies have been turned into services by big companies?

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Re:Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit by eitland on Sunday October 04, 2020 @07:54AM (#24678304)
Certain companies have complained because other companies made a profit from selling hosting of their (A)GPL software.

This is totally OK with the (A)GPL which is why certain companies has tried to come up with new licenses, none of which are compatible with OSI Open Source.

(I specify OSI Open Source here since someone took the time to dig out enough references to convince me (and probably others) that the term open source was used more or less for the same idea well before OSI started using it.)

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Re:Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit by Etheryte on Sunday October 04, 2020 @09:32AM (#24678907)
For anyone interested in this in more detail, [1] and [2] offer good examples and context.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.en.html

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/2127313/1470607

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