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In practice it doesn't mean more contributions though. If MSFT used his project for profit and contributed back, he wouldn't be complaining. Instead they forked his project, without even sufficient attribution, and now he has to do even more work to differentiate his original project from their derivative.

So the point is that we need another license that does gives open source rights to individuals, yet does not permit corporations to take everything and give nothing.




> So the point is that we need another license that does gives open source rights to individuals, yet does not permit corporations to take everything and give nothing.

Why doesn't the AGPL fill that role?




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