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A comment on Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave. Parent comment

Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by ghaff on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:08AM (#13606975)
>They are free to modify and adapt the code without contributing the changes back to the community, which kind of ruuing the point of the GPL in the first place.

As they are with the GPL so long as they don't distribute the modified code outside of the organization.

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by ufo on Thursday February 09, 2017 @10:03AM (#13607366)
If they receive a copy of the software under a non-GPL license they might also be allowed to redistribute modified versions without releasing the source code. (This is usually the whole point of having the proprietary dual-licensing scheme).
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