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Which is why proper open source should be GPL, with a commercial license, so that the likes of him pay for the work of others that make his business possible to start with.

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Which is already happening. RHEL is open source because the majority of Linux packages are GPL licensed.

If they were using non-copyleft licenses then RHEL packages would be closed.

So long as he’s not making changes and distributing them the choice of open source license is mostly irrelevant.

Proper open source uses whatever licence the author wants.

If the authors want to get paid, they need to choose a license wisely.

That more or less rules out GPL.

How ?

That is the whole point of having GPL with an additional comercial license.

Tell that to the MySQL folks. They sold it to Sun for a billion dollars, then made Larry Ellison pay for its development when he finally realised buying it with Sun wouldn’t allow him to kill it.

I’m still waiting red hat to pay me for the accepted ansible patch I wrote few years ago.

Did you get a contract for work done?

It was a way to reply “has to pay for work of others” but which work ? And which others ? Cause currently Redhat is owner of Ansible and make money with it, while me as a contributor never got any penny they get from Ansible.

So why rakuten should pay Redhat for work not getting paid by Redhat? See the point ? Who is parasiting the ecosystem here ?

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