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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.




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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