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Re:Open Source Bait and Switch by simfree on Monday September 26, 2022 @10:59PM (#32991136)
Nothing says you have to accept outside contributions. Signal rewrites outside pull requests for this very reason.

Also hot damn, the AFPL license is super aggressive, makes AGPLv3 look downright business friendly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_Free_Public_License

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Re:Open Source Bait and Switch by LtWorf on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @02:12AM (#32992007)
> Signal rewrites outside pull requests for this very reason.

Too bad that rewriting something doesn't transfer copyright :D

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Re:Open Source Bait and Switch by leaflets2 on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @02:45PM (#32999374)
Might mean to reimplement from scratch without looking at the would-have-been contributed code.

Ideas aren't copyrightable. IANAL

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