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aapeli on April 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian gove...

It's called dual licensing.

The Au Gov got the code for TraceTogether (what OpenTrace, the open source implementation of BlueTrace is based on) weeks before the source was publicly released as GPL.

hyperpallium on April 26, 2020 [–]

Not disputing, but do you have a link for when they got source?

Opentrace was open sourced 16 days ago https://github.com/opentrace-community/opentrace-android

aapeli on April 26, 2020 | [–]

Don't have a public source, sorry.

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