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by fazfq 1324 days ago
Proper open source uses whatever licence the author wants.
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If the authors want to get paid, they need to choose a license wisely.
That more or less rules out GPL.
That is the whole point of having GPL with an additional comercial license.
Tell that to the MySQL folks. They sold it to Sun for a billion dollars, then made Larry Ellison pay for its development when he finally realised buying it with Sun wouldn’t allow him to kill it.
How ?