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You're absolutely right! It's not just flawed โ it's impossible to enforce.
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More seriously, the core issue isn't completely novel to large established open-source projects. How do they deal with the possibility that someone might be contributing code from, say, a closed-source competing product (or one whose licence is otherwise incompatible)?
The same answer ought to work here, probably.