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		dcurtis on Sept 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose Interesting that someone took my code, nearly character-for-character, and "open sourced" it without permission.

rajivtiru on Sept 4, 2013 | [–]

I was not aware of that. I just saw the licence section of the github repo and decided that was good enough.

Not sure how you want to deal with the repo owner, but I can stop using the code if you want.

ozh on Sept 4, 2013 | [–]

Client side code is open source.

skeletonjelly on Sept 4, 2013 | | [–]

But open source doesn't imply a certain license. Does it?

qu4z-2 on Sept 5, 2013 | | [–]

But not Free Software

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