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		easytiger 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can'... So if I write a piece of software that does the job I designed it for, and you decide you want it to do something else, you should be handed the source code and right to redistribute it? Simple like that?

bcye 28 days ago [–]

It sounds like you're still actively using the copyright (by distributing your software) in that case, so no?

easytiger 28 days ago | [–]

That's not what the parent comment posits.

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