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by serge2k 3508 days ago
> Yes. I think it's possible

I think the point is that it would break license compatibility. You can't have other projects use it without either giving it away (in which case your own commercial use is broken) or having them switch to your license (their desires are broken).

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You mean FOSS projects desire to use it under their terms. That's a subset of potential users and contributors. Commercial users can license it. FOSS might also use it as an optional, paid component (eg plugin). They sort of do already with Open Core, Paid Extras model. These options won't be popular among FOSS-only types but commercial users might be fine with extensible, source-included software. Even Microsoft had huge community of developers supplying code for stuff depending on their proprietary software.