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		maxloh 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source Nope. You can never verify they run the same code from their repo. You cannot physically access their system after all.

fsflover 15 days ago [–]

Illegal actions are often hard to prove, and yet laws somehow work in general. Same here with obeying the license.

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