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Warp wrote:
> William Tracy <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> wrote:
>>>> Linus lets me use Linux any freaking way I want.
>>>   Not true. Linux is bound to the GPL license, which limits what you can
>>> do with it. For example, you can't take the linux kernel and build a
>>> closed-source commercial product with it. You certainly can not do whatever
>>> you want with it.
> 
>> I can can personally use it however I see fit.
> 
>> As soon I as start redistributing it, that's a *whole* different can of
>> worms.
> 
>   Distributing it *is* "using it however I want". You didn't specify it
> as an exception.
> 
	"using it however I want" does not mean the same thing as "doing
whatever I want with it". The latter would include distributing, the
former doesn't.

	According to my dictionnary (Collins Cobuild 1992):

use, uses, using, used (verb):
If you use something such as a tool, service, or a course of action,
you do something with it in order to do a job, achieve something, or
solve a problem.

distribute, distributes, distributing, distributed (verb):
If you distribute something such as leaflets or badges, you hand
them out or deliver them to several people.

	Distributing does not "do a job", "achieve something", nor "solve a
problem" therefore it is not "using".

		Jerome
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