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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by nl on Monday November 21, 2022 @12:46AM (#33689256)
No, for a number of reasons:

1) It's the code license that matters, and the depends on what license the code the developer is building is using

2) License compatibility is undecided (see eg the different views of Apache Foundation and FSF on the compatibility of ASF 2.0 and GPL)

3) It's easy for someone to deliberately produce code that violates a license. MS is a big target and you can bet license trolls would chase it on that.

Probably more reasons, but there's a good start.

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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by Jenk on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:23AM (#33691345)
3) is not a good reason. "Big fish" is not an excuse to not provide protection. The burden to protect others from harm as a direct result of a feature of a product is on the owner of that product.
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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by nl on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:56PM (#33698589)
Not if it opens them up to false claims.
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