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0 pointsagile-gift026213d ago0 comments

if it were true that indeed was legal to rewrite and relicense open source code, would that also be true for non-open source code? as in, could someone do a similar rewrite of their employers proprietary code and release it publicly?

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Nolski13d ago

Yes. Provided you had access to the original source code. Pheonix technologies did this with the IBM bios.

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0 pointsagile-gift026213d ago0 comments

if it were true that indeed was legal to rewrite and relicense open source code, would that also be true for non-open source code? as in, could someone do a similar rewrite of their employers proprietary code and release it publicly?

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Nolski13d ago

Yes. Provided you had access to the original source code. Pheonix technologies did this with the IBM bios.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse