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lowagie/itextpdf being an obvious/prominent one.

it happens - why would you think commercial operators who’ve chosen a dual-license model wouldn’t protect their IP? That’s literally their breadwinner.



"shakedown" is a rather stronger claim than "adopted a licence".


I fairly well knew that your question wasn't good-faith, that's why I hesitated to respond rather than just flagging it.


what element was "bad faith", that the query was nonsense? Point me at anything that would legally or even ethically constitute a "shakedown" as alleged by OP, who it appears in the subthread to have misread the license?

like, answer the question instead of evading, surely it cannot be that hard.




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