[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Interesting comment. How do you characterise the GPL? In effect, the GPL
> coerces (forces?) you into "freeing" your source code. Mind you, I've always
> been a proponent of the GPL until its terms and conditions bit me today (see
> my earlier messages).
I guess the difference is that you can *use* GPL'ed software all you want.
It's only when you try to incorporate it into your own code that you must,
as it were, pay.
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