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by homebrewer 624 days ago
They explicitly allowed it. If you don't want to be taken advantage of, put it in the license. It's honestly hard to feel sympathy for companies that release a product under a what some meme circles have called a "cuck license"¹ and then complain when some other entity adheres to the license.

1: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuc...

(GPL would not help in this specific case — I believe the project is already under the GPL — but his general point still stands.)

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Yeah I agree—they should use the AGPL as that’s the one that protects on the server side.