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Re:DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform by luriel on Saturday September 01, 2012 @04:38PM (#4465041)
> One useful reason to bookmark it: it's a pretty good how-to for "any web application whose purpose is to spit out PDF files that need to follow a specific format".

As others have pointed out, the (not really open source) license doesn't allow any uses for other purposes.

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Re:DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform by tptacek on Saturday September 01, 2012 @07:09PM (#4465459)
It would be silly to copy an application this simple verbatim, but that same property makes it very easy to read.
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Re:DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform by fleitz on Sunday September 02, 2012 @04:22AM (#4466545)
I don't think so, it isn't clear from the legalese what the intended purpose of the software is.

It could also be argued that because they have not warranted the product as fit for any purpose that there is no intended purpose.

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Re:DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform by adrinavarro on Saturday September 01, 2012 @05:58PM (#4465278)
Maybe you can't copy-paste it and replace part of its insides as with other apps, but it's still useful if learning and testing on local, I guess.
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