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by juunpp 932 days ago
Makes sense, thanks for clarifying. Also, I take it whatever adware they want to add is proprietary, so that won't be compatible with the GPL'ed code anyway. The legal basis for this sellout seems very thin to me altogether. I think the company's only option would be to remove every single third-party contribution?
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ads don't have to proprietary

here's one example of ads in FOSS https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/779