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Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

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Post by EamonnMR » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 3:18 AM UTC

tannhaeuser wrote: post #104

EamonnMR wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AGPL tries to do this but it's otherwise similar to GPL rather than Apache 2.

AGPL in no way prevents anyone to use the licensed software. It just demands, like GPL, that modifications be made available to users, but in addition to GPL, extends this duty to the case where the licensed software is used remotely/as a service (rather than "distributed" to users for use on their own computer).

Which in theory should prevent you from getting AWS'd

Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

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Post by hehetrthrthrjn » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 8:09 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #55

hehetrthrthrjn wrote: post #12

"free software for me but not for thee"

I'd actually support a license that said "it's OSS except Google/Amazon can't take my thing, launch as a service and charge for it".

I have no problem with that, but don't pretend that someone is abusing your license when you didn't stipulate.

If fact someone should come up with a well written licence that adds conditions when the licensee revenue is over a certain (large) amount, like say royalties. Everyone should be happy with that.

Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

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Post by anaganisk » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 6:38 AM UTC

mjasay wrote: post #297

I run the open source strategy and marketing team at AWS. As I told Tim privately and publicly ( https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1317084448119169024 ), I hadn't been aware of this but am talking with the relevant product team to see how we can improve in his regard. AWS uses a lot of open source, and we contribute a lot, both in terms of code (first-party projects like Firecracker and Bottlerocket, but also third-p…

Where is that crowd that denounced n8n.io for using a license that explicitly prevents this kind of exploitation. I dont understand why people harp constantly for software to be open completely and free, and put a suprised pickachu face when it gets exploited.