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		dpkirchner on Aug 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life? Would this taint the other code in your repo with the GPL? I'd guess it would depend on how it is distributed.

klyrs on Aug 21, 2023 [–]

If you're running on your private build infra, it's fine. If you're pushing that repo to somewhere public, it's now GPL.

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