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Originally Posted by Colette Meiji  Doesn't open source basically give their stuff away ... kind of the concept?
Its not the same thing really as people selling content, is it? |
Open source relies on copyright law to enforce the terms of the open source licenses. We still must enforce against copyright infringement. Not every open source license says "do whatever you want", the GPL in particular requires people to keep the code open.
It's because open source often does not have a huge pool of money to draw from that we have had to find low-cost ways to enforce copyright.