How is it not progress? You have full access to the code, you can use it yourself however you'd like, and the copyrights expire.

They just ask you not to compete with them for a few years.

How is that any way comparable to AWS?

Perfect truly is the enemy of good.

In this case, perfect murders good and locks you in the dungeon of eternal bad so you can think endlessly about perfect. It also stabs any good that comes along while crying about perfect.

> They just ask you not to compete with them for a few years.

No Open Source license actually permits this - by definition of Open Source.

Also the notion that copyright "expires" is ludicrous - we only just saw work from the 1920s enter the public domain (and source is no different to that). Laundering via AI clearly does not count, either.