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5 Sep 2024 09:23:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A simple question of GPL  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 8 Aug 2009 10:41:23
Message: <4a7d8e93$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

>   I find your original question a bit strange, really. For instance, Linux
> is GPL, yet demonstrably Linux is quite widely used in commercial settings
> and for commercial purposes. There are even some companies which actually
> sell Linux distros, even though it's GPL (Red Hat being a prominent example).
> 
>   From this alone one should deduce that the GPL license certainly doesn't
> forbid using GPL software for commercial purposes.

I wasn't aware which exact licence Linux uses. (Although arguably the 
fact that they want people to call it "GNU/Linux" should have been a 
giveaway...)

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