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palata on April 22, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Getting forked by Microsoft

I will reiterate that most developers I know have almost no idea how open source licences work.

frumplestlatz on April 22, 2025 [–]

That’s willful ignorance at this point, and they shouldn’t be incorporating open source code into their projects without speaking to an attorney or someone otherwise qualified to answer their questions.

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