Unlicensing
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But sadly, some of the projects are rant from others time and they've gone to close or non permissive. (AGPL is great but "attitude" is bad, they're using LICENSE as a strategic way of Business.)
But what your license affects is large companies. If you declare your project as AGPL, then you can be pretty sure neither Google nor Amazon would use it. They might re-implement it using their resources, but they won't use code directly.