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Why not release the source under AGPL (where 'network use' counts as distribution, unlike GPL), and offer commercial licences for those who want more favourable terms?

https://fossa.com/blog/dual-licensing-models-explained/

The maintainer of libxml2, Nick Wellnhofer, will be moving all his future contributions over to an AGPL fork as corporate users of libxml2 were unwilling to contribute financially.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288488

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/976#note_253...



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