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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by mrob on Thursday March 18, 2021 @04:52PM (#26507420)
Following the terms of the license is not abuse. The whole point of permissive licenses is to allow anybody to exploit the software as they wish. If that's not what you want then don't use a permissive license. AGPL is a good alternative choice.
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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by charrondev on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:13AM (#26510742)
Isn’t that the whole purpose of this thread? There’s a trend of projects doing exactly what you just said.

They don’t want that happening so they use a non-permissive license.

Cue the holy war over the definition of open source.

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