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Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again by paulmd on Thursday August 29, 2024 @06:54PM (#41396198)
lowagie/itextpdf being an obvious/prominent one.

it happens - why would you think commercial operators who’ve chosen a dual-license model wouldn’t protect their IP? That’s literally their breadwinner.

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Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again by davidgerard on Friday August 30, 2024 @05:34AM (#41399094)
"shakedown" is a rather stronger claim than "adopted a licence".
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Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again by paulmd on Friday August 30, 2024 @03:19PM (#41403673)
I fairly well knew that your question wasn't good-faith, that's why I hesitated to respond rather than just flagging it.
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Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again by davidgerard on Saturday August 31, 2024 @11:26AM (#41409538)
what element was "bad faith", that the query was nonsense? Point me at anything that would legally or even ethically constitute a "shakedown" as alleged by OP, who it appears in the subthread to have misread the license?

like, answer the question instead of evading, surely it cannot be that hard.

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