Drew DeVault • 12/18/2021

On commercial forks of FOSS projects

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This article examines the recent illegal commercial forks of the open-source streaming software OBS Studio by companies like TikTok, which violate its GPL license. It explores the conflict between the gaming/live-streaming industry's understanding of intellectual property and the ethos of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS), discussing modding culture, software licensing, and the legal obligations for commercial use of FOSS projects.

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