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greyface-today at 6:46 AM1 replyview on HN

The bill exempts:

> a person or entity that distributes an operating system or application under license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify the software

which at least doesn't choose specific winners and losers among licenses. It does disfavor license-free and public domain software, which isn't great.


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pritambaraltoday at 6:58 AM

> It does disfavor license-free and public domain software, which isn't great.

Public domain software is free to "copy, redistribute, and modify", so ... where's the disfavour?

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