After being quoted in Mr Spadaro's paper, Mr Raymond took to his own website to note that he had deliberately equated cathedrals with proprietary, closed-source software directed from above, by contrast with the more chaotic bazaar of equals which produces open-source code.

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If the borrowed open-source code is integral to a larger program, that program becomes a "derivative work, " subject to various claims--e.g.

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