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For questions about the process of publishing free/open projects, involving decisions such as whether to provide binary builds or which packaging system to use

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Does private GPL open source exist? if so, how does it work if mixed with public GPL?

Your first statement is ultimately false. Anyone who receives a copy of GPL'd software must have the right to redistribute it, so we can be sure that second half of statement #1 is false. However, the …
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Can I use/distribute LGPL command line software in mine that isn't LGPL?

It sounds like your work is a completely spearate work from FFmpeg. You work and FFmpeg are two different works that happen to interoperate. The FSF's GPL FAQ says: Can I release a non-free program t …
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Does this constitute a breach in GPL license? Article with GPL licensed software and Journal...

You certainly are distributing the GPL-licensed work to the reviewer. "Internal" non-distribution conveyance only occurs between agents of the same legal corporation (persona ficta) because it doesn't …
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