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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by sarchertech on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:46AM (#32580982)
> It must be available for any entity to do with it what they wish.

By that definition GPL and attribution required aren’t open source.

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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by colejohnson66 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:31AM (#32595089)
GPL (and friends) are about preserving the user's rights, in exchange for the developer's. The user is free to do what they want; They can make their own personal changes and builds, but the developer can't unless they follow the license.
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