Published at LXer:
Pure, unadulterated FOSS is, of course, free to distribute as one pleases. What happens, though, when a private company grabs a piece of FOSS, adds a little of its own secret sauce to the mix, and creates a new application? How free is the software then? The answer depends in part on the license under which the original application operated and what exactly you want to do with the newly created software.
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