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gryfftyesterday at 1:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Many open source licenses levy restrictions upon the acceptable use of the software. Those restrictions may include attribution requirements, up to and including a requirement to include the license when redistributing the code; they may forbid using derivative works for commercial purposes; they may require the downstream project to utilize the same license. Open source is not the same thing as "anybody can do anything they want forever."


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tzsyesterday at 1:37 PM

> they may forbid using derivative works for commercial purposes

The most widely used definitions of “open source” do not allow such a prohibition.

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lenerdenatoryesterday at 1:15 PM

> Unless you don't copy the license terms

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