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This seems to be an argument against non-viral licenses than CLAs: > We’ve seen this happen before. Consider the Redis Labs debacle, where they adopted the no
by hodgesrm 8y ago
This seems to be an argument against non-viral licenses than CLAs:
> We’ve seen this happen before. Consider the Redis Labs debacle, where they adopted the nonfree1 Anti-Commons Clause2, and used their CLA to pull along any external contributions for the ride. As thanks for the generous time invested by their community into their software, they yank it out from underneath it and repurpose it to make money with an obscenely nonfree product.
People can already repurpose software with permissive licenses such as MIT, BSD, or Apache 2.0. That's actually the point of those licenses, isn't it?