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Modifications you distribute have to be given back. You don't have to distribute the modifications though.

• yakubin 4y ago
  Not given back to the original authors, but given to the users.
  • uuuguaii 4y ago
    Issue is that many large corporations use FLOSS internally with heavy extensions/modifications and never give back to the community. They don't have to, since all users are in-housr, and those tend to have access to the source code. But that's ok. If upstream is somewhat active then it's just a pain to keep maintaining your in-house patches, compared to sending them upstream. So that's automatically a motivator. If upstream is not active, then it does not matter anyway.
  • sokoloff 4y ago
    Only if you give those users your modified version. If I host GPL software on a webserver and my users use that webserver, I don’t have to give them the source code for modified GPL programs. This is fairly common.
    • ilikehurdles 4y ago
      Depends on which GPL you’re using.