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dmitrygryesterday at 5:00 PM2 repliesview on HN

I encourage you to try selling copies of some Disney movies and Nintendo game rips on your website, representing them as your own work, and when they notice, to offer to "just delete them".


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giancarlostoroyesterday at 6:55 PM

This is beyond what we're talking about though, you're referring to copyright infringement. I'm referring to an open source licensed software that ALLOWS commercial use, the only requirement is attribution.

Your example only makes sense if the company stole the code from a proprietary repo, like a hostile former employee.

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Dylan16807yesterday at 7:35 PM

That analogy only works if there was a place you could signup for free to allow you to host and sell those files.

As-is, it's so far off it's useless. Even though both situations involve copyright in some manner.

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