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by ake1 2982 days ago
the only widely used license that i know of that would get violated by this kind of use (i think) is the AGPL.
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pjmlp 2982 days ago
It is not only about violating licenses, rather leeching whatever software they feel like it, without give a cent back.

And there is no way to validate that.

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ake1 2982 days ago
i would assume they are not contributing but if i wanted to find out if they did, i'd ask them. should be fairly easy to validate if you know what they're contributing to.

while i agree with your point about this being sub-optimal for both software-development and free software as a whole, i think it is a separate issue.

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