• KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How can they use GPL’ed code and then close it? I thought this was specifically forbidden?

    • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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      1 year ago

      It’s available to the end users - I.e. red hats customers. End users are who the GPL is there to help, not everyone on the planet.

      • plumcreek@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Exactly. Amazing how many people seem to forget it is “free as in freedom, not free as in beer”.