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NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS
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Nothing in the GPL prevents software from being used commercially... why do you claim they are unable to?
You are disallowed from building a commercial product on top of it or tweek/fix it without publishing said changes. There may be systemic reason that prevent that.
That still doesn't prevent a company from having the option to use the code commercially. Whether they actually want to do it or not is a separate issue.
Nope. You can build proprietary code on top of it, as long as you don't distribute it. A company can create all its internal tools with copyleft code, and it would all be kosher. If they start sending that code elsewhere, then the license kicks in.