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Re: GPL propaganda
From: |
Kelsey Bjarnason |
Subject: |
Re: GPL propaganda |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:27:27 -0700 |
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Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) |
[snips]
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:53:40 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:
> On 2008-09-26, Rjack <user@example.net> wrote:
>> 2) Do care about GPL advocates stealing other people's exclusive rights
>> with an illegal copyright license.
> Yet the likes of Oracle and EA seem to manage well enough despite
> of all of your bitching and moaning. This "problem" of yours only ever
> manifests itself whenever you try to take someone else's property and
> treat it as if it were your own.
I've got Herr Bonehead killfiled, but I happened to see this response to
it. He's asserting an "illegal copyright license"; is he actually
suggesting that the GPL results in some sort of illegality? That if I
use GPL'd code in my own app, I'm somehow stealing something from the
original writer? Is he unaware that the original developer _chose_ to
release it as GPL, knowing full well it would be re-used in other
applications?
Or is this some other argument?
- Re: GPL propaganda,
Kelsey Bjarnason <=