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23 Dec 2025 06:45:01 EST (-0500)
  Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous  
From: Warp
Date: 29 Jan 2009 12:14:23
Message: <4981e3ef@news.povray.org>
nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Warp escreveu:
> >   I like how GPL fanboys resort to argue about semantics when their "you
> > can use it in any way you want" is proven wrong. Suddenly the term "use"
> > is limited to certain uses, not all of them. Thus, of course, this is a
> > self-contained truth: "GPL code can be used for anything you want, when
> > we define 'use' appropriately."

> Using the software is not the same as using the source of the software. 
>   That's really where your "semantic" gets skewed.

  Right. When we define the word "use" properly, anything fits.

  So how exactly is GPL different from any other license?

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                                                          - Warp


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