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0 pointspohl15y ago0 comments

So let's say a man asks for some food, and Apple says "well, we've got some beef jerky here, but I know you're a strict vegan so you'd probably be more interested in the tofu we set aside for you yesterday", and the headline is "Apple blocks starving man from food".

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jwhitlark15y ago· 2 in thread

Er, no. Apple built off the existing code base. This isn't charity, they chose to use free software in the first place.

And actually, when they made that choice, it was Apple that was starving. But I'll let someone else draw up the parable. ;-)

pohlOP15y ago

Actually actually, it was NeXT who made that choice.

And the license itself does not require copyright assignment. Rather, the FSF does.

wooster15y ago

... and then FSF changed the license. GCC is under GPLv3 now, no?

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