I encourage you to try selling copies of some Disney movies and Nintendo game rips on your website, representing them as your own work, and when they notice, to offer to "just delete them".

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giancarlostoro 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is beyond what we're talking about though, you're referring to copyright infringement. I'm referring to an open source licensed software that ALLOWS commercial use, the only requirement is attribution.

Your example only makes sense if the company stole the code from a proprietary repo, like a hostile former employee.

	▲	dmitrygr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		All copyleft licenses are built on top of copyright law. That is their one and only enforcement strategy, by design. So we are in fact talking about the very same thing. Here, read: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/#...

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Dylan16807 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That analogy only works if there was a place you could signup for free to allow you to host and sell those files.

As-is, it's so far off it's useless. Even though both situations involve copyright in some manner.

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dmitrygr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I again point out that ALL copyleft licenses are built on copyright, so my example is perfectly valid - one way or another it is copyright infringement,

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/#...

	▲	Dylan16807 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		What am I supposed to say here. I already acknowledged that and said it's not good enough to make the analogy work. If you repeat that point with no elaboration, you're basically just saying "nuh uh".