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"Can this feature land upstream?"

"No."

<Fork happens>

:shrug: - of course, the failure to preserve the license is an egregious error which amounts to infringement. But it's easily remedied.

And if the downstream project has a popular feature that can't / shouldn't land upstream, then that's okay - that's what everyone prefers.

"$BIGCO shouldn't be using my software, certainly not outside of how I intended it to be used!" - this attitude is totally contrary to both Free Software and Open Source IMO.

If you don't like it then you should probably consider a more restrictive license.






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