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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by rmc on Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:52AM (#11729464)
> does not trigger any copyright claims by OWS even if doing so involved reading the GPLd version.

I'm pretty sure having GPLed code open, reading it and writing some new software counts as a "derived work", and the GPL would apply. That's what most people who release FLOSS want to happen.

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