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Seeing big companies take advantage of BSD or MIT licensed projects without sharing their contributions will always pain me. (lemmy.world)
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[-] bss03@infosec.pub 7 points 3 months ago

It's an argument against a license that permits relicensing under a more restrictive license. (E.g. BSD)

[-] suzune@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago

Of other software, yes. For example Linux distributions can use the BSD or MIT licensed code without any problems.

But it does not allow to remove the license from the software.

On the other hand GPL code cannot be imported into BSD code without introducing restrictions.

this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
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