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Open-source commercialization

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Is it possible to copy an open-source app, change name, design, a few functionalities and start a new startup, new name and new domain?

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TV's avatarTV
on November 25, 2020
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    Short answer: it depends.

    Longer answer: depends on the licence the open source project was licenced over. GPL for example presumes that if the OSS was free for you, whatever you build on top of it should be too.
    MIT licence on the other hand, presumes that you can do whatever you want with the software, modify it, sell it,...

    A good source to check what you are permitted to do is: https://opensource.org/

    Good luck,
    g

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      Thanks, I just checked it's MIT. Looks like I'm good to go.

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