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Let me take the opportunity to repeat myself.

We need a "professional-courtesy" license. Something like a GPL on steroids that can only ever be distributed as tarballs.

The minute to pass a binary around, the minute you try to deploy with any sort of devops, etc, you have just opted-in for a commercial license, which requires a (modest) yearly fee.

This way, your generosity will gain jobs for a fellow hackers somewhere. Takers still can pay for the benefit of convenience, though.




I've never heard you say it, but I have a model that will do what you are describing here.




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