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How to bypass GPL (easy tutorial) (szmer.info)
submitted 1 year ago by lemmur@szmer.info to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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  1. Be a huge company
  2. Buy one of the biggest FOSS hosting websites
  3. Train AI model on code from your purchase
  4. Paywall and restrict access to the model for everyone except you
  5. Laught at Stallman and his lifework
  6. Profit
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[โ€“] gammasfor@sh.itjust.works 131 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Let's be honest this is how it actually usually plays out:

  1. Be a huge company

  2. Make your employees sign an NDA

  3. Make your code closed source

  4. Use GPL code and not give a shit because you're a huge company with a legal team bigger than your Dev team

[โ€“] pivot_root@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Larry, is that you?