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Re: GPL traitor !


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: GPL traitor !
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00:50 -0400
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Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Lack of virality regarding compilations is explicitly covered
> by "mere aggregation

This is false, of course, as any normal person reading the
licenses can see. Choosing to deliberately misread a license
isn't even any good for arguing on Usenet, much less forming
a basis from which to run a software business.

> The FSF is on record

Once again, you are deliberately misstating what the FSF said,
which was that GPLed programs contained on a Linux distribution
medium fell under the "mere aggregation" clause and did not
cause the distribution medium as whole to fall under the GPL.

They made no such statement regarding programs built with GPLed
components, since in fact this is the opposite of what the GPL
states.

Do you truly believe you gain some rhetorical advantage by
outright lies?


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