• hperrin@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        You don’t follow the license that it was distributed under.

        Commonly, if you use open source code in your project and that code is under a license that requires your project to be open source if you do that, but then you keep yours closed source.

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          1 year ago

          I still wouldn’t call it stealing, but I guess “broke open source code licenses” doesn’t have the same impact, but I’d prefer accuracy.

          • bamboo@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            It’s piracy, distributing copyrighted works against the terms of its license. I agree stealing is not really the right word.