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deadbunny on Aug 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

I consider building a moat on open source contributions (that have to assign their copyright) then closing off to be something a "bad actor" would do.

hashtag-til on Aug 11, 2023 [–]

Not at all. It's a defense mechanism that many are forced to do in order to protect from freeloaders.

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