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But your FPL must be MIT compatible. Joyent does not have that restriction. They could sell a forked version that prohibits redistribution.


Where in the MIT license does it say you can't bar redistribution in your proprietary fork? That's obviously what everybody does when they use MIT code in their proprietary products? That's the whole point.


IANAL, but isn't that precisely what the MIT license requires? That everyone who gets a copy of the software must also have the right to modify and redistribute it for free?




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