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by satvikpendem 100 days ago
There are licenses like that, just don't call them open source. They're just another form of proprietary software albeit sometimes also being source available.

If you want to make money, make commercial software and sell it. It's funny to see people complain about people taking what they gave out for free, it's like having a lemonade stand with a huge sign saying "free" and being surprised people take the lemonade.

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Especially since it's just a disguised and unenforced bait-and-switch - FREE OSS LIBRARY that DOES EVERYTHING YOU NEED for FREE!

Oh, by the way, when you use it and are dependent on it, give me big bucks.

Not big bucks. Small bucks would fix the problem.