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Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana by gabereiser on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:36PM (#25434910)
While I get the sentiment, this activity is what is killing open source. If you like a tool, contribute or license it to keep it a float. Don’t just rip it and do your own thing. There are maintenance costs that aren’t associated with the feature development. There are liabilities, legalese, indemnity, etc you should worry about.

Support open source.

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Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana by sneak on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:45PM (#25435015)
Free software means freedom to modify it and build a paid service from your private fork.

If you can't do that, it's not free software, despite what the AGPL torch-carriers think. Freedom means free to do things that may be contrary to the desires and interests of the original authors: this is why software with "no military/no missiles/no bombs/etc" clauses in their licenses are not free software.

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Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana by Spivak on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:17PM (#25435381)
And why the JSON license isn't Free or Open Source since you're not allowed to use it for evil.
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