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Does Google make their GPL modifications available? If so, my argument does not apply to Google, but may apply to other big tech companies. I mentioned Google
by Buttons840 3y ago
Does Google make their GPL modifications available?
If so, my argument does not apply to Google, but may apply to other big tech companies. I mentioned Google only as an example--a place holder for any big tech company.
It seems any company that hosts modified GPL code can't stop their employees from just walking off with it and selling it.
- dekhn 3y agoNo, if you modify GPL code at Google you would upstream the changes. Not sure why you're so concerned by this use case, it doesn't seem particularly important.
- kube-system 3y ago> It seems any company that hosts modified GPL code can't stop their employees from just walking off with it and selling it. Sure they can, just don't distribute the code. The company holds the copyright to all code the employee wrote, if the employee took the code, they'd be violating their employer's copyright.