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by eeZah7Ux 1930 days ago
> it could be preferable not to rewrite parts of it under weaker licences that go directly against their mission

+1. It's very sad to see user freedom being thrown away as a goal and replaced by software that becomes unpaid labor for FAANGs. Especially since the SaaS takeover.

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GPL does not protect against SaaS provider creating derivative as there is no further distribution of binary or source code. Only AGPL (and other more strict licenses) addresses SaaS derivatives issue.