• lntl@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s a GPL license thing. If you make a derivative work of GPL code, you’re NOT free to do what you want with it. This is where the 'anti come from.

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      1 year ago

      Ah. Well I’m pro theft so just use it and close it if you want and pray for the best! Hide the evidence to not get sued.

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        1 year ago

        This happens from time to time. The offending party either removes the GPL code or they GPL the work. That’s life ;)

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              1 year ago

              You don’t need to rewrite it though. Just keep it closed source and import / copy paste whatever you want into your repo.

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                1 year ago

                It’s may be possible to tell if there is GPL code included whether or not the source is reveal. A simple example is that some plain-text strings are visible in compiled binaries. In this way, poking around with a hexeditor may reveal strings which indicate part of the code is GPL.

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                  1 year ago

                  Hmmm. Thankfully I only develop small services and haven’t done any big monolith that people wanna audit. When I get to that point I’ll prolly get sued and then try to figure out what to do while profusely apologizing and denying at the same time.

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      1 year ago

      There are two parts to this. On one side, you have the “please follow the GPL if you’re using GPL code” – which is really just asking someone to honor a contract, more or less.

      Then you have people like RMS, who believe that there should not be such a thing as proprietary software. They don’t care if you aren’t using the GPL – no software should be proprietary, period.

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        1 year ago

        I admire that RMS has a vision for the world and fights for it. World needs more people like this.