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by CuriousSkeptic 3738 days ago
No license is contagious, or viral. It's a license, not a law, you are under no obligations to honor it. It is not an implicit contract between you, or anybody else. It simply states what rights are granted to you, and under which conditions. If you fail to comply you simply don't have those rights, and it's just normal copyright violation.

Should you redistribute a modified copy, and not license your modification accordingly, the recipients do not get an implicit license to you modifications.

The only way your code will get licensed to others is when you explicitly say so.