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New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by reactive_recall@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

you cant sell othwrs ans then close source which is what they did to my knowledge

[–] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Open source can be sold/commercialised. I think you're confusing between FOSS and open source.

[–] labbbb@thelemmy.club -1 points 10 months ago

FOSS and open source is the same thing

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

You perfectly can sell GPL code. And you can double-license yourself (provided that you are the copyright holder) as GPL and a privative license. A lot of companies do that, legally and correctly.