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Re:The Day We Fight Back by SoftwareMaven on Friday January 10, 2014 @06:06PM (#7040276)
You are not required to give that first customer the source code with BSD.

The only companies that make money on software containing GPL'd code are doing it server-side with pre-GPLV3 or AGPL'd code. I've worked at a lot of companies that used and created open source software; and the rules are invariably the same: No GPL'd software allowed into the source tree, period.

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Re:The Day We Fight Back by marcosdumay on Friday January 10, 2014 @08:18PM (#7040961)
<blockquote>You are not required to give that first customer the source code with BSD.</blockquote>

That's only different if you are selling other people's software. If so, why should anybody have any simpaty?

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Re:The Day We Fight Back by chc on Saturday January 11, 2014 @01:27PM (#7043254)
It's also true if you are selling original software that borrows one line of code from somebody else's software.
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Re:The Day We Fight Back by dllthomas on Saturday January 11, 2014 @01:38PM (#7043292)
You could conceivably try to claim fair use, in that case, although it would undoubtedly be easier (and easy enough) to replace that one line with something original.
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