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GPL asks to release back changes to code made by a company, for which the company paid already, i.e. it's almost zero price for the company, and just look how much companies are afraid to donate zero ($0) worth of code back to the opensource project and prefer to pirate it instead, including such mega-rich companies as M$.


> GPL asks to release back changes to code made by a company

Only if the code is distributed. SaaS can be (and is) used to get around this.


Hence the AGPL.




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