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by agile-gift0262 100 days ago
if it were true that indeed was legal to rewrite and relicense open source code, would that also be true for non-open source code? as in, could someone do a similar rewrite of their employers proprietary code and release it publicly?
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Yes. Provided you had access to the original source code. Pheonix technologies did this with the IBM bios.