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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 224 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 91 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah piracy is with like boats.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] msage@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

And eyepatches and scimitars

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 13 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't call pirating stealing either so