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by Bostonian 1564 days ago
You publish open source code so that others can benefit from it, and if Google uses it maybe billions of people will benefit from it, so I disagree.
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Everyone has different reason to publish their code using open-source license. I like sharing my code but I don't like when multi-billion dollar company make a profit from it for example. Ofc, that's what I agreed to when I release my code under open-source license, but we are all free to have different sentiment about it.
This is an individual choice; people have motivations beyond "maximize usage of my code".