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Comment by takeda

12 hours ago

It's on BSD license, Google or someone else can again Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

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bigstrat2003  7 hours ago

That is not possible. Google, or anyone else, can make a fork of the project. But they can't take away the original from the commons.

  • akho  1 hour ago

    This post is _about_ how that is both possible and common.

    Only GPL is somewhat immune, because Stallman was always right.

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