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23 Dec 2025 05:05:31 EST (-0500)
  Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous  
From: Darren New
Date: 28 Jan 2009 21:35:36
Message: <498115f8$1@news.povray.org>
somebody wrote:
> GPL neither protects, nor restricts the rights of anyone using any other
> license.

It does so by preventing you from using a different license. The GPL 
prevents you from linking code with a different license to GPLed code. The 
MIT license doesn't.

If you can't see that, then I'm not sure what the problem is.

> Maybe so, but that's irrelevant. The author can pick any license that he
> wants. 

Unless he's authoring a plug-in for GCC.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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