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[–] hperrin 224 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fidodo 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] JustZ 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah piracy is with like boats.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

And eyepatches and scimitars

[–] tb_ 1 points 5 months ago

Distributing it would be one thing, but profiting off it?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

I think it makes the most sense to think of it like stealing the way plagiarism is stealing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I wouldn't call pirating stealing either so