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[–] recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

While this is satire, it's difficult to imagine the courts accepting that license laundering is acceptible especially with companies with proprietary software actively suing others for even mentioning relicensing their own proprietary software (hyperbole but assholes like Nintendo actually exist).

Allowing the laundering of open source software would blow the whole house open for rewrites or am I missing something?

A potential dystopia I'm imagining is where only the biggest billionaire backed companies own the software and refuse to share anything screwing over all consumers and competitors (especially with toxifying the open source community). I hate to say it but we might not be far from this hellscape of a future.