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Comment by jrockway

5 years ago

I think that people have pretty much put their "core values" into their licenses these days. People who don't want Amazon to run their software as a service use the AGPL. People that don't really want an open source project but want to put "open source!!!11!" on the box add caveats like "you can't run this code on a device you didn't buy from us" (very common in the keyboard firmware market).

If people aren't choosing a license compatible with their values, then that's on them. The era of Github only giving you free hosting if you pick a DFSG-compatible license are long over; you could put the Windows source code on Github and they would be happy to use a heart emoji to describe how they feel about it.