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Exactly right. These updated licenses are mostly to stop massively profitable hyperscalers using their work for free. For the average joe, or regular company it makes no difference.


There are actually open source copyleft licenses (such as GPL, AGPL) that force "massive profitable hyperscalers" to contribute their improvements back.


But not any money.


Yes, trying to retain a monopoly over use of the software is inherently incompatible with the idea behind free software.


Amazon, Google, Microsoft must be grateful for all these developers defending them against massive companies like Liquibase.




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