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arc99@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Exactly. Open source is fine when it suits them but not fine when it doesn’t.

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pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is why GNU GPL is very importand.

Here the GNU GPL comes to the rescue. The programmer shows the boss that this proprietary software product would be copyright infringement, and the boss realizes that he has only two choices: release the new code as free software, or not at all. Almost always he lets the programmer do as he intended all along, and the code goes into the next release. ref

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