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		gavinhoward on Dec 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the... Wikipedia is not the best source of information. There is a difference between "strong" copyleft and "weak" copyleft. An example of "weak" (non-viral) copyleft is the CDDL. In fact, the CDDL's Wikipedia page talks about strong and weak copyleft. You can read [1] for a breakdown of copyleft by an actual lawyer. Suffice it to say that Wikipedia's Copyleft page is woefully inadequate. [1]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/10/24/How-to-Speak-Copyl...

xigoi on Dec 29, 2021 [–]

If the Wikipedia article is misleading, it probably shouldn't be linked in the license…

gavinhoward on Dec 30, 2021 | [–]

I link to Wikipedia as a first point of call. People should always look deeper, and I can't help that.

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