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by kubanczyk 2271 days ago
That's why I pay attention to the license when contributing to FOSS.

For MIT, BSD, Apache 2, it's quite easy for a company to hire a handful of active maintainers and starve the original project by redirecting their attention to a closed-source fork. http://hintjens.com/blog:27

GPL, and especially AGPL, are better in this regard.