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Whats wrong with that?
Linux has a great history of splitting hairs over philosophical purity and practical practices.
Honestly, a fork is a probably a perfect panacea. The project will become a pair; one procuring funding at the price of it's soul, the other persisting as perfect (and pitifully prehistoric, save the proactive pedestrian). For a period both will produce positive momentum, but the paid product will peak higher and sooner, and fall precipitously. After the pitiable putrid product performs as well as pious poop, the persistent one will proceed to provide.
Tl;dr: ppppppppppppppppppp
There, FTFY.
😗🤌Perfectíon
Because if there is proprietary code that is compiled, but can't be read, it's hard to know if there is data harvesting that people can't opt out of. And proprietary code being added paves the way for more proprietary code. If this is an incorrect understanding, someone correct me.
I dont trust someone who has affiliate links in code to not be selling unique identifiers like ip adresses etc.