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Comment by simonw

4 hours ago

There are open source licenses that don't allow businesses to use them to make money without hesitation like the AGPL.

What matters is clarity. If code is licensed under a known open source license businesses know exactly what they can do with that code. Other users of the code also know that it supports the core criteria outlined in https://opensource.org/osd

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