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> That's completely different to whether the source to an application is available and whether you can distribute modified versions of that source.

That’s fair. My point was that the obligations of open source developers/maintainers do not begin and end with the explicit terms of the license, which is true. There are laws (and norms, though you don’t seem to acknowledge those as legitimate) that publishers of software are obligated to comply with.




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