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goodpoint on June 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do open source licences cover the Ship of Theseus?

The point of GPL is to allow end users to benefit from open source, instead of getting closed software or hardware.

In this case caseysoftware clearly benefits from the GPL code that gets replaced. End users get no guarantees.

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