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Why do you say the code would become freely available? With no copyleft, you could fork any project and keep the code closed forever.
by mortehu 4y ago
Why do you say the code would become freely available? With no copyleft, you could fork any project and keep the code closed forever.
- chii 4y agobut the copyright to that code would expire in another X number of years. So it's equivalent to having GPL on that private fork, but on the timeframe of copyright expiry.
- Scarblac 4y agoNo. The GPL says you must provide the source when asked. In the new situation they would just never distribute it.