This should be standard industry practice. Any company above a certain size should contribute financially to all software it depends on.

jethro_tell a day ago | parent | next [-]

Which for AI companies would be every public GitHub page to start.

	▲	kristofferR a day ago \| parent [-]
		Not to mention GitHub/Microsoft itself.

nullorempty a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

that's a great point. and make it proportional to how much they make off it. looking at you aws for all the great oss software you sell.

johnnyanmac a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

if this was industry practice, licenses like GPL wouldn't have needed to be created.

lofaszvanitt a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tell that to the FOSS zealots....

We used to call this “buying an enterprise license”.