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Open Source in the age of license laundering
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this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
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The problem is that companies will no longer publish the source code for their projects, as they are not in control of what happens to it and they can't restrict competitors anymore.
Im not a big fan of fake open source, but source available is better than closed source.
And license laundering will not primarily be used to make projects with less restrictive licenses, its main purpose will be using copyleft or noncommercial projects in closed source products.
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Whereas, before a company may contribute something they created for internal use and they may have put something to try and stop direct competitors from using it (like restrictions only for cloud providers) now they probably will just not publish at all.
To be fair, some of the "fake open source" was a result of some projects seeing their projects taken by a cloud provider, charging for it and not contributing ANYTHING back to the original project. Can't really say I blame them.