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[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (16 children)

Pardon my ignorance but how do you steal code if it's open source?

[–] [email protected] 224 points 10 months ago (9 children)

You don’t follow the license that it was distributed under.

Commonly, if you use open source code in your project and that code is under a license that requires your project to be open source if you do that, but then you keep yours closed source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I still wouldn't call it stealing, but I guess "broke open source code licenses" doesn't have the same impact, but I'd prefer accuracy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't call pirating stealing either so

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