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Taxation deprives the victim of property. Distributing derivative works of OSS does not deprive the OSS authors of anything. Distributing works that use OSS as
by anonymoushn 13y ago
Taxation deprives the victim of property. Distributing derivative works of OSS does not deprive the OSS authors of anything. Distributing works that use OSS as a library does not deprive the OSS authors of anything. Running a service which does not distribute OSS but depends on the OSS internally does not deprive the OSS authors of anything.
Of course, people can use whatever license they want. I personally favor licenses that maximize the rights of my users. Hopefully, though, you can now see that the combination of positions you mentioned is a consistent one.