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[Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy



On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 09:11:52PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:27:28 -0500 Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> 
> > I think there's no compelling reason to see releasing software
> > under a non-GPL-style license as inherently a bad thing.
> 
> Until the corporation patents a proprietary modification of the Open
> Source software.

I'm generally opposed to software patents, but even then...  If they
created something genuinely new, to which prior art (based on the
original work) could not apply, so be it.

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