Or do you think they’re going to liberate some parts of its code?

  • jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding of GPL is that the requirements are only triggered if you distribute your software

    Twitch’s back-end code (server code) is never distributed to customers/users, so it ought to be completely fine to use GPL code in any way they want

    Twitch’s front-end code (desktop apps, web apps, mobile apps, etc) would count as distribution, so any use of GPL code here would have to comply with the license

  • ChinaNumberOne@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    they are going to apologize, release what they violated so far and once security is tighter, continue to do it