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Red Hat grew on GPL licensed projects to become a $34 billion business. Canonical does the same except it’s Ubuntu not RHEL and charges more than Red Hat.

You really underestimate the value of support contracts.

GPL is not MIT. If your software is GPL, you can sell it relicensed as MIT for income.

Doesn’t matter. When companies pay for support contracts they don’t care whether the code is GPL or MIT. They care about the support they get.

You can only do this if you own the copyright for all contributions.

Red Hat is not relicensing the Linux kernel, or GCC (to name two examples).

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