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by bredren 1334 days ago
I don’t know how it is viewed here, but have a look at the licensing scheme adopted by Sentry.io.

They faced a similar concern when people were selling the exact same product using a new name.

> For example, this past year, we’ve had to deal with funded businesses plagiarizing or copying our work to directly compete with Sentry. This has included taking marketing content from our website, plagiarizing our documentation and framing it as their own, or straight-up copy/pasting our product visuals. Their defense? “Well, it’s free open-source, and we can do that.” These businesses are not using Sentry to improve how they develop software; they’re lifting its code and assets to build their closed-source products to compete directly with us.

https://blog.sentry.io/2019/11/06/relicensing-sentry/