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Re:Why the GPL is great for business by sylware on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:57AM (#31421660)
A use case which usually people do not think about: the GNU GPL does work for many defence contracts... yep it works with strong secrecy.

The end-user being the defence, any modifications done on top of GPL open source software have to be provided to the user... namely the defence, the only end-user.

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Re:Why the GPL is great for business by simonh on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @10:43AM (#31423401)
It's also heavily used in banks, many of their internal systems are built with/on GPL software and that's fine because the only user is themselves.
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