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23 Dec 2025 09:56:57 EST (-0500)
  Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous  
From: nemesis
Date: 30 Jan 2009 13:08:39
Message: <49834227@news.povray.org>
Darren New escreveu:
> If everything I can do with software A I can also do with software B, 
> but there are some things I can do with B that I can't do with A, then B 
> is more free than A.

You're right.  MIT is more free than GPL is.

> GPL isn't there to make *my* code free. It's there to make free the code 
> of people who improve GPLed code.

Very true.

> The brainwashing in this case is to 
> make people think that if I improve your code, then it's still your code 
> to control.

I don't think I get it what you mean.


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