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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by throw_m239339 on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:02AM (#30587229)
> So the Russian government are probably already in the process of transitioning to FLOSS.

There is something absurd with that sentence, Software licenses are completely irrelevant if piracy is legal.

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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by rectang on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:54AM (#30587769)
Exactly, they aren't going to respect your FLOSS license conditions.
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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by pabs3 on Monday March 07, 2022 @09:57AM (#30588510)
FLOSS license conditions aren't very well respected even in the West. Hopefully the lawsuit against Vizio will set a precedent that makes it possible for users to enforce them as well as copyright holders.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by rectang on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:50PM (#30590988)
I agree that there are many violations, but I also think that there is a lot of compliance, due to both goodwill and fear.
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