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Not strictly. Downstream GPL users do not need to publish their changes. Businesses and individuals can get GPL software, change it for their own internal use a
by quadrangle 6y ago
Not strictly. Downstream GPL users do not need to publish their changes. Businesses and individuals can get GPL software, change it for their own internal use and keep the changes private.
GPL's upstream features are incidental and often practical but are not the point of the GPL and more importantly do not describe how it works legally.