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Re:Explaining React's license by devdoomari on Friday August 18, 2017 @11:57PM (#15051572)
um... because it's they can? I can make a library with MIT license to everyone else but you.

MIT and BSD licenses merely provide short-cuts to understanding a project's licensing

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Re:Explaining React's license by nopzor on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:22AM (#15051655)
Not practically, because once you make a library with an mit license available to anyone, they can give to anyone you didn't "want" to give it to, per the mit license.
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Re:Explaining React's license by gstein67 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:21AM (#15051652)
"everyone else but you" would no longer be an OSS license.
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