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by Dylan16807 5214 days ago
I don't follow. You can do whatever you like with gifted items too.
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Free/open source software is not a gift, even an MIT license does not give you total freedom to do whatever you want.

To make a pure gift of code to the world, you would have to put it in the public domain (and even then there are odd legal issues in some jurisdictions).

Yes, but the point of the top-level comment was the analogy being a poor fit.