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If you don't want to give people downstream of you my source code, I'm happy to sell you a commercial license.

This means you have only solved the problem for large companies, and specifically those who have money and who have a functioning procurement system that's developer-driven. Which is a very narrow use case.

Also relevant comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596403

You can also just give people downstream of you my source code, supporting software freedom. Then you can use it for free.

Again, that only works for large companies, and for companies that can exists even if their service is downloadable.

Which fine, you can choose to take that political stance. But that's a stance of "I want to change the world to my liking", not "I want to help the world/people".

Up to you, of course, but I prefer to help not only large companies.

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