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> Define "fix". By definition you cannot have an open source licence which says "cannot be used for bezos yacht"

FOSS acceptance is a grey area. Something has been tried with the AGPL, which is FOSS, however, it has been deemed not to provide adequate protection by companies creating similar products (while, ironically, being considered poisonous by companies using them), so the SSPL was created, but it hasn't been accepted as FOSS license because its intent was unclearly defined (http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.o...).




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