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Re:AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service by tsimionescu on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:29PM (#24804724)
> The intention of open source licenses was never to force those who redistribute the software to improve on it. It was to provide end users with the freedom to be able to do that themselves, by distributing the improvements as well.

Perhaps that was the intentions of the license creators, but famously Linus for example chose the GPL license precisely as a quid pro quo - I give you code for free, you give me back code for free.

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Re:AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service by ddalex on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:44PM (#24804860)
And this projects doesn't use GPL, uses Apache. So why do the authors expect something back !?
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