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And what puzzles me all the time is why the programmer chooses the licenses which permit this exact behavior, and become pissed when this happens?

You explicitly told everyone that you can do that, and when others do that, you become sad.

To be honest, I think this is because many encourage only FOSS licenses as by definition of GNU, and choosing a custom non-"free" license (which could be still copyleft, but with some restrictions for which the developer care) is usually considered as a "bad move" from the abstract community.

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And what puzzles me all the time is why the programmer chooses the licenses which permit this exact behavior, and become pissed when this happens?

you almost answer this yourself, it's not just that a custom license is a bad move, because we could develop a standard license that excludes large businesses, but also that we are now invested in how Free Software and Open Source licenses work that it is difficult to change because such a new license would not be compatible.

there are efforts. most notably bruce perens started working on one a few years ago, but now he wants to wait and see who the AI use for code changes things. the other is FUTO. these efforts need to grow and gain momentum.

so not really puzzling, because there isn't much choice