On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:53:13PM -0400, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> You can't steal free software, it already "belongs" to you (in a certain
> sense).
>
> Yes, you can steal free software. Stealing means misappropriating the
> work.
Stealing means taking (probably intellectual) property away. But I already
give you mine under a specific license.
> A company could take your GPL'd work, perhaps modify it, and release
> it as proprietary, restricted-distribution binary-only code.
This is a copyright infringement.
(waaay off topic, I might add ;)
Thanks,
Marcus
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