• EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    3 years ago

    If you do not abide by the usage terms of the open source license, yes, you are actually stealing it. Virtually all open source software licenses state that any resulting project that uses code from that open source project must also be published using the same or a derivative open source license and thus have 100% open source code, and many open source software licenses also state that you cannot make a profit from any project that uses any code from the original open source project.