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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by sokoloff on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:28PM (#30367887)
I want to afford anyone the benefit of an F/OSS license so they don’t have to waste their life energy recreating a wheel that I’ve already created. If it helps you and saves you time, have at it! In other cases, I contribute back patches so that companies can ship better software to their users (sometimes so I benefit; other times just so someone else doesn’t have to fix the same bug I just fixed).

This license case isn’t about “you can personally monetize it and nobody else” but rather “you and anyone else who wants to can try to monetize it”.

Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by shawnz on Thursday February 17, 2022 @09:56AM (#30373689)
Right, I mean to say why would potential contributors want to afford those benefits to the original author so that only the original author can monetize it?