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by eternalban 2062 days ago
Premature throwing of the white towel.

Original contributors are in charge of the distribution restriction.

The organization is purely operational and enforces distribution restrictions, per original authors’.

They can infiltrate the distribution org as much as they want, as long as the original author to org hand-off is legally constrained. The main puzzle is what is that legal mechanism, which may be nothing more than licensing.