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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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