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Re:Why I replaced MIT with copyleft license for Nodemailer by jackbravo on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:44PM (#13555663)
Under a copyleft license you CAN use it however you want. You just are obliged to open source any modification you make to it.

I'm not sure how the "derived works" clause applies to node.js projects using this project.

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Re:Why I replaced MIT with copyleft license for Nodemailer by e12e on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:06PM (#13555839)
You're obligated to also distribute sources to changes if you distribute.

You can implement single-image clustering on top of the Linux kernel all you want, and keep your changes - so long as you don't distribute the software. If you do, you must distribute under the gpl.

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Re:Why I replaced MIT with copyleft license for Nodemailer by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:21PM (#13557100)
GPL and LGPL require that users of your software have to be able to relink with their own version of the copyleft code. It's not enough just to provide the source (for compiled languages).
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