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		dragonwriter on Oct 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own s... If you offer a license that doesn't require something, don't be surprised when people accept it and do only what is required by the license. That's literally the deal you offered.

rickspencer3 on Oct 16, 2020 [–]

Honestly, I agree with this. Your ethical standards should be encoded in the license.

OTH, if you treat people like a jerk (for example by forking their code and not involving or crediting them) there are practical social repercussions from that, but probably AWS is not much impacted by that.

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