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Copyleft has very little to do with this. The authors of a permissively licensed project keep their copyright as well, and nothing stops you from taking over a
by nwellnhof 4y ago
Copyleft has very little to do with this. The authors of a permissively licensed project keep their copyright as well, and nothing stops you from taking over a GPL-licensed project as a company as long as it stays open source. Copyleft only stops someone from distributing changes as closed source.
- ilyt 4y ago> Copyleft only stops someone from distributing changes as closed source. That "only" is the important part. Having to change label attached to it is annoying, but copyleft is crucial
- ddevault 4y ago>as long as it stays open source This is the important part.
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- pessimizer 4y ago> Copyleft only stops someone from distributing changes as closed source. Which is all we wanted?
- nwellnhof 4y agoThe original Open Letter was only about domains and trademarks.