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What prevents others from commerciallly redistributing open source software as-is?

I just want to allow others to freely use and edit my software, even if it's for commercial use, but I don't want others selling exactly what I made. …
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License opensource app for non-commercial

Is that commercial use? A website without advertising offers an improved version for download, but the software is modified to show banner ads. Is that commercial use? … Is that commercial use? I use your program to learn Japanese and/or programming. Then I use the skills I learned to make lots of money. Is that commercial use? …
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can a closed source commercial software make system(3) calls to GPL applications (not librar...

This situation is covered in the GNU GPL FAQ, in the section "I'd like to incorporate GPL-covered software in my proprietary system. Can I do this?" in many cases you can distribute the GPL-covered s …
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Usage of mix licensies in commercial use

The MIT and BSD licenses allow you to use them as a library and still keep your work under any license you want. The GPL, on the other hand, doesn't allow this. When you use a GPL library, the whole p …
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