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Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam (www.gamesradar.com)
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[โ€“] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You can't do whatever you want with open source either. One big stipulation of copyleft licenses is the share-alike clause, which means you can't make modifications and then decide your program is now closed-source, so it protects the code from being enclosed again.

I mean yes you can make whatever modifications you want, generally, but it's not totally unrestricted.

[โ€“] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

Im honestly a really big fan of copyleft. I think that it seems more "fair" in a system that requires sacrifice to make progress.