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Trivia: notepad++ is open source but with a clause that you are not allowed to bundle it with spywhare. So while most sites that make money off bundling open so
by z3t4 5y ago
Trivia: notepad++ is open source but with a clause that you are not allowed to bundle it with spywhare. So while most sites that make money off bundling open source software with spywhare are in the twilight zone - anyone bundling notepad++ with spywhare are clearly in the wrong territory
- josephcsible 5y agoCitation needed. It looks to me like it's just GPL, which has no such clause. I'm also skeptical that any license with such a clause would qualify as open source.
- CodesInChaos 5y agoI see two ways around that: 1. Apply the license restriction to the official binary. The distributor would have to recompile from source to get a binary they can redistribute without restriction. That might stop some low effort redistributors. 2. Trademark the name of the software. The distributor would have to rebrand. That should be a bit more effective.
- josephcsible 5y agoI guess they could have done either of those things. But is there any evidence that they did?