@noisytoot @alexia Yes, I'm suggesting selling exceptions. It seems like you're missing my entire previous point, which is that open source developers need to make a living under capitalism. Using the GPL would still allow massive for-profit companies to use the software without compensating developers at all. I think putting food on the table for open source developers is more important than use of completely free licenses.
About the section that says "No entity that commits such abuses or materially supports entities that do may use the Work for any reason," that section was actually not there when I made the original post. That section is in the new OQL v1.3, from two weeks ago, whereas v1.2 was current at the time of the original post. I will suggest a change to the language anyway.
Finally, I don't understand your argument about minio. Minio itself is licensed under AGPL, the very license you suggest would solve these problems. Its contributing page doesn't list any sort of contributor licensing agreement (which is what I assume you mean by CLA). I'm completely at a loss as to how the AGPL was supposed to prevent this, since in this case it clearly did not.
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