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> Clearly, IANAL, don't know how valid this reading is, but publishing anything you didn't wrote yourself might not be on a very stable legal basis. Yes. This
by belorn 4y ago
> Clearly, IANAL, don't know how valid this reading is, but publishing anything you didn't wrote yourself might not be on a very stable legal basis.
Yes. This was one of the legal theories behind why Apple refuse to allow GPL in the Mac App Store. The TOS that apple required from developers givens Apple specific rights which the GPL do not grant, and thus any software that get uploaded must be assumed as providing the software under two separate licenses. Given that many free and open source projects has multiple authors, it is a rather large assumption that the person who uploads the software has the complete authority to provide the software under multiple conflicting licenses.
It is after all the distributor that has to do the due diligence to confirm that they are in the right to distribute.