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		mmahemoff on Aug 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The White House just open sourced their first Gith... So effectively GPL imposes a dual (or multiple) license on the non-GPL part.

dllthomas on Aug 24, 2012 [–]

Insofar as the non-GPL part is specific to the GPL code, yes. If you reimplement the GPL code under a different license, you could reuse the public domain bits. I expect in most cases, it wouldn't be terribly worthwhile.

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