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think: Orange makes software for the government, that the government pays for, that actually turns out to be existing software owned by someone else and under G
by user5994461 5y ago
think: Orange makes software for the government, that the government pays for, that actually turns out to be existing software owned by someone else and under GPL license (which extends to the whole project and has other implications).
That's very much the definition of counterfeiting.
- Mikeb85 5y agoThere's also workarounds and it isn't necessarily 'counterfeiting'. Think Amazon selling hosted Linux OS images. Think commercial software that needs GPL software to run so the user downloads the GPL software themselves instead of it being bundled.