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git or mastodon are not 'silicon valley'. Yes, it is a feature for others to build upon Mastodon.

It's a bit more problematic for, say, hasicorp. They don't like that.



They also benefit from making their software open source because it drives people to adot it.


They also benefited from a large ecosystem of third party contributors, whom were not (at least, visibly?) considered as stakeholders when Hashicorp implemented this license change.

I'm pretty sure no-one contributing to a product's ecosystem likes it when the previous agreements related to IP underpinning the ecosystem is rugpulled out from under them.




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