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There needs to be a way to prevent AWS from taking your code, setting up a competing business, taking the entire market, and leaving you with nothing. Existing
by echelon 2y ago
There needs to be a way to prevent AWS from taking your code, setting up a competing business, taking the entire market, and leaving you with nothing.
Existing open source licenses leave you vulnerable to this.
"Source available" / "fair source" is one nice solution, but the open source purists hate it.
Another solution would be an even more viral open source license. Require that any users of your code make their entire company codebase also open source under the same licensing terms.
If the AGPL is "viral", we need a "pandemic": "Use this code and all of your company code, company docs and memos, manufacturing instructions, etc. must also be open and publicly available. Or contact us about an enterprise licensing fee."