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They take code with a license that prohibits using it to create preprietary software and use it to create proprietary software. It’s not about money.


But it's not forking or linking to any of that software. It's "using it" only in the sense of reading the code as examples of how to do things after mixing it with a million other sources. Sorry but I just don't see the problem with that. Very different, categorically, in my mind from what is intended by software licenses when they talk about derivative works.




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