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> but the original project will have access to all of their changes so the cloud operator won't have any advantages when selling support or a license with different terms.

Those changes would be under some sort of AGPL and the original project cannot merge it back, while still maintaining their option of a commercial license.

So once the original project merge any of their competitor's changes/forks, their project becomes AGPL only, and lose the ability to charge for a commercial license as a monetization strategy.



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