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by AntiImperialis4 1998 days ago
That doesn't protect you against violating someone else's license. If you never make it opensource, nobody has to know.
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Good point, although what would cause a situation like this? Releasing source code with a modified version of a GPL-licensed library, but with an incompatible license? Wouldn't that be a problem when you're distributing software anyway, regardless of whether it's open-source or not?