> Then Amazon comes in and sets up their own even easier hosting while providing none of the profits or development effort back to the original project
There's nothing particularly "modern" about this "problem". Redhat caused this problem with GPL and BSD-licensed code in 1993.
It's a feature, not a bug. Some people probably didn't like it then either.
If you resent companies and people making money from your work, you're not really embracing the ideals of open source. So just keep it closed source. Like I said earlier you can always reveal the source to licensees when they pay you, and you can prevent them from distributing the source.
There's nothing particularly "modern" about this "problem". Redhat caused this problem with GPL and BSD-licensed code in 1993.
It's a feature, not a bug. Some people probably didn't like it then either.
If you resent companies and people making money from your work, you're not really embracing the ideals of open source. So just keep it closed source. Like I said earlier you can always reveal the source to licensees when they pay you, and you can prevent them from distributing the source.