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FabCHtoday at 7:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

Surprisingly many people in the linked Reddit thread seem to think that open source license means Google can re-license the code and strip the author info.

Which is the one thing you absolutely cannot do.


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bananaflagtoday at 7:48 PM

They confuse it with public domain, which means exactly that.

bitpushtoday at 8:11 PM

I took a look at the code, and it seems the author info was in pyproject.toml which is not license.

if there was a comment that said // TODO(username) and google removed all comments, is that violating any license?