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		viraptor 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompila... This is not a space for "language evolves". Open source has very specific definitions and the distinctions there matter for legal purposes https://opensource.org/licenses

naniwaduni 6 days ago | [–]

The terms of the licenses have legal bearing. The definitions of open source are a historical accident that mostly traces back to "well GPLv2 already exists".

yieldcrv 6 days ago | [–]

the software community is the one trying to evolve the language in favor of this software license specific use case

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