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Comment by gillianseed

You violate the rights which the GPL licence grants them, which is the rights to the source code of the actual binary they recieve, so that they can examine, modify and run their own versions of the actual binary.

In practice this works out well for developers who release their code under the GPL and want to enjoy any enhancements made to their code in return.

They will as 'end users' of any distributed modifications have the right to the source code of those modifications.

This way those modifications/enhancements aren't locked away from the original developer in a proprietary project.

parent gillianseed 13 years ago

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