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No, npm only says you give them a license to allow them to serve the package to users; other than that, you're free to license it however you want.
by icebraining 8y ago
No, npm only says you give them a license to allow them to serve the package to users; other than that, you're free to license it however you want.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoSo the bank shouldn't be able to send DMCA takedown notices, right? Because they granted npm the license to redistribute the package.
- lgeorget 8y agoI think they can argue that the code is their property and that the employee that published it on NPM had no mandate from the company to do so. So it's effectively "stolen code" in a sense, just as if the employee had done it to harm the company on purpose.