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Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by mpyne on Sunday May 18, 2014 @09:05PM (#7765162)
> The legal controls could be for example around certification of a product: no source, no certification, no legally selling product.

GPL forbids giving away infringing code as well.

Does your proposed regulatory regime also encompass forcing all open-source and hobby coders to get one of your licenses before they can enable the "download as ZIP" feature on their GitHub?

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Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by mlinksva on Monday May 19, 2014 @02:57PM (#7769118)
Could, probably wouldn't. Just as consumer, competition, procurement and other regulation typically doesn't cover hobbyists. I'd call that a feature -- more effective enforcement for commercial entities, hobbyists can ignore. Contrast with copyright hack, applies to all, commercial entities can ignore without consequence.
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