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Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
GPL is a copyleft license. It means that you legally obliged to distribute derivative work under the same or equivalent license (see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Linking_and_derived_works for instance).
LGPL is a more relaxed license in this regard and allows ...
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With respect to my colleague Bart, a licence that "encourages" users to contribute back would not fail the desert island test: that is engaged when the licence requires such contribution or communication. The example Debian quote in the linked page refers to an author who says "you must hereby send me your changes"; note "must". A licence that asks the ...
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If there is such a license, it would not be an open-source license. Such a license would likely fail the Desert Island Test
Can a group of people exercise their rights under the license, even if they have no way of communicating with you.
Besides that, a copyright license is not the best way to motivate people to contribute bug reports/feature requests/...
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