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If it's truly OSS what's there to prevent someone from simply forking it to make a version where the manifest file is distributed freely (in both senses of the word)?

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What is the incentive for someone to pay to access the manifest file and then maintain a free fork that includes it?

I feel like a manifest file is not that hard to write yourself. It's the same incentive as any other FLOSS work.

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