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

> > That *is* against the stipulation of the license. So it's not preventing
> > anybody who agrees to the terms of the license.

> Well, yeah. "Everyone is free."  "What about the slaves?"  "Well, the
> constitution says they're not people, so they're free too. Free to be
slaves."

For this argument, I don't care whether you believe slaves are people or
not, so long as you are consistent with your definition. What you are doing,
however, is obfuscating the matter by claiming GPL license limits rights of
MIT licensees, when in fact, the same software cannot be both GPL licensed
and a MIT licensed, just as one cannot be both a person and a non-person
simultaneously. GPL license perfectly protects the rights of authors who
chose it, within the terms of the license. As does MIT license. Take your
pick. You cannot, however, eat your cake and have it too.

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