"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> 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.

No it doesn't. You can pick any license you want, so long as you agree and
abide to the terms of the license in question. That's how *any* licensing
scheme works.

> The GPL
> prevents you from linking code with a different license to GPLed code.

That *is* against the stipulation of the license. So it's not preventing
anybody who agrees to the terms of the license. If you wish to use GPL code
with non-GPL code, you are *not* agreeing to the terms of the GPL license,
so of course it's not going to apply to you.

> The MIT license doesn't.

MIT license doesn't protect the rights of the authour because it prevents
him from not distributing the license with his software. See how absurd that
sounds?

Yes, MIT license is less restrictive as to what recipients can do, but
that's the reason there are so many licenses. Authors get to pick to which
licensing terms they agree.

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