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Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing by lacker on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:58PM (#25836403)
That is an unacceptable risk for almost any business so GPL software doesn’t get used.

Plenty of companies use Linux... this seems like something people worried about in the 90's but have now generally accepted.

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Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing by ABeeSea on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:18PM (#25838327)
Linux system libraries are released under Lesser GPL and/or have exemptions for linking that the general GPL does not have. I worked at $bigtechco$ and anything GPL/AGPL was expressly forbidden by the lawyers.
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