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Furthermore, Freeware can often be covered by patents and copyrights (either of which is equally imposing these days thanks to DMCA). This is what Zeydlitz refers to, and is a trick that's already been used a couple times: Allow open source software to use your stuff, and then pull the rug out later on and claim a right to patent royalties for continued use.
This was one of the major motivations behind the release of GPLv3 -- one of the new clauses states that any source code released under GPLv3 has explicitly given up its patent protection. This was in direct response to software companies releasing patented software under GPLv2, and then later claiming a right to receive royalties for use of the patented portions of the code.
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First off, this thread is getting way off topic, 2nd, they already proved it.
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