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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I doubt they're as worried about people covertly stealing their licenses code as they are about amazonish tactics where a competitor forks the codebase and takes a significant fraction of the users with them, or even just reuses the existing code to host a service, which means they don't have to ship their modifications back upstream.

I'm not defending the decision, that's just my experience with how this is usually justified.