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FOSS was created as a compromise between the FSF and the OSI, and the latter's Open Source Definition includes this:
Keep in mind that the OSI was made for the purposes of popularizing the term "open source", which was created because some wanted it to be more pragmatic than political. This is a consensus.
That's really great for people living in the 1990s. However for people and businesses in the now, with megacorps taking advantage of their dominant positions to sell an opensource product without contributing back and killing the business that provides the opensource product, hanging on to a lucid dream mean the death of the opensource product and loss of livelihoods.
Staying purist in the face of reality is one thing: delusional.
Maybe someday we'll have the alternative of "The morgue is full of people who had the right of way" for FLOSS purists who didn't want to give in to reality.
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Could you provide an example: Ideally a copyleft one