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The big gotcha is what one understands under the word "use". If I want to USE it as a basis for my business where I sell routers with the GPL software, there ar
by bornfreddy 3mo ago
The big gotcha is what one understands under the word "use". If I want to USE it as a basis for my business where I sell routers with the GPL software, there are some tiny restrictions regarding that, as Linksys learned [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt (see History section)
- rbanffy 3mo agoThat’s correct. You can’t take freedoms away from your downstream users. As I said before, violating a free software license usually means you are stealing from your users, negating them rights they ought to be given.