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<p class="MsoNormal">I pointed out at the beginning that given the intent was to promote a dual licensing business model and it would be very hard to game the license to be both OSD compliant and make commercial users need/want to pay for a commercial license.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The objective isn’t bad and I can believe his programmer friends/customers like the concept of “use my stuff for free for fun, but if you make money from it pay me in money or code in return”. I like it too. Unfortunately, it just isn’t
open source.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Developers achieve this outcome by simply selling a proprietary license and letting open source projects use their developer tooling for free or having a pro version and an open source community version. Neither requires L0R and the issues
that arise by tying compliance to use.<o:p></o:p></p>
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