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> And, naturally, anyone can fork it if they wish, or distribute proprietary, non-open-source versions of an Apache/BSD/MIT-licensed project, subject to appropriate attributions, if required, by the relevant licenses.

so, basically you submit free labor for the use by for-profit corporations, but you dont get those same freedoms to do so on your own devices, got it

personally, i wouldnt mind so much if users of submitted code were payed "dividends" for ones labor when used in propriatary for-profit services/products, but seing as that is not the case, well, i cannot abide...



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