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> If that's the case, we need to serious re-consider how we reward Open Source as a society (I think that would be fantastic anyway!) -- we have people producing knowledge and others profiting directly from this material, producing new content and new code that's incompatible with the original license.

Is that new? If I include some excerpt from copyrighted material in my own work and it's deemed to be fair use, that doesn't limit my right to profit from the work, sell the copyright to someone else, and so on, does it?



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