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vonxylofon@lemmy.world 5 days agoJust FYI, most open source software is not in public domain, it is protected by the same copyright we are talking about here, except the author made it available under certain conditions (the licence).
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Good point, I didn’t even think of that because the GPL and MIT are so permissive.
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The MIT is, but GPL is actually very restrictive. For example, it disallows publishing derivative works without those being licensed under the same terms (or newer GPL versions). That’s why commercial companies are reluctant to use GPL-licensed code in their products.