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by rhindi 2053 days ago
Just dual license your code with an AGPL and commercial license. Proprietary software companies hate AGPL, and won’t take the risk to use it, instead preferring to pay your commercial license. MongoDB does that very successfully!
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From the MongoDB blog [1]:

> AGPL fixes this “loophole” in GPL by saying that if you use the software over a network, you are bound by the copyleft.

Isn't that basically everything? Loopback is a network, right? I like the general idea and I think AWS really cheated them (ethically), but I wonder if there's something better that's completely safe for small business to ignore as easily as something like the MIT license while forbidding use by huge providers like AWS.

1. https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/the-agpl