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pabs3 25 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack

The LGPL/GPL/AGPL family of licenses don't require upstreaming, only passing source code downstream to end users.

In this case upstreaming replaced images wouldn't be useful to the author anyway, they are going to keep the anime image.

lelanthran 25 days ago [–]

> In this case upstreaming replaced images wouldn't be useful to the author anyway, they are going to keep the anime image.

In this case, it would be, because (presumably) the new images are the property of the user, and they would hardly want (for example) their company logo to be accidentally GPL'ed.

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