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This should be standard industry practice. Any company above a certain size should contribute financially to all software it depends on.


Which for AI companies would be every public GitHub page to start.


Not to mention GitHub/Microsoft itself.


that's a great point. and make it proportional to how much they make off it. looking at you aws for all the great oss software you sell.


Tell that to the FOSS zealots....


if this was industry practice, licenses like GPL wouldn't have needed to be created.


We used to call this “buying an enterprise license”.




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