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The author is never bound by the license, and it would basically become a eye-for-a-eye license. If you sue, you get sued.

It would of course not provide the benefits of GPL which has requirements on distributors to provide source code. It would be a completely different license, and if I made it, likely based on MIT just so it would be the least company friendly permissive license ever. I only bring it up as an example of a license requirement whose intent would align with many who uses GPL in order to prevent copyright abuse.

Contrubutions would be quite messy however.




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