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		venus on May 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scribd and Quora considered harmful I wonder if you could add a condition to a document's license, CC or whatever, forbidding it being hosted behind any kind of pay- or signup-wall?

dredmorbius on May 26, 2014 [–]

The GNU GPL generally requires works be provided in the "preferred form" for making modifications. That might well be a hack around Scribd's methods.

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