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    [–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Basically, it allows you to steal all the code and use it in your closed-source programs, giving a green light for corporations to use open-source code without giving anything back.

    GPL doesn't allow that, forcing you to open-source anything that was produced using other GPL-licensed code. That's, for example, why so much of Linux software is open-source - it commonly relies on various dependencies that are GPL-licensed, so there is no other legal option other than sharing the code as well.

    [–] communism@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    It's not "stealing". It's explicitly allowed. Using IP according to its licence is the opposite of stealing.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Ok, then call it "plagiarising".

    [–] communism@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    That is definitionally not plagiarising. It follows IP law, which is the opposite of plagiarism.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

    There's more than a legal definition of plagiarism.

    Plagiarism is when you sell the work of others as your own without attribution. There are bucketloads of examples of legal plagiarism.

    I'm pretty sure that everything H. Bomberguy discussed in his plagiarism video was legal, for example.