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Forcing your users to have to GPL any of their code based on your code is controlling them more than releasing under a more sane permissive license. It's ironic that GPL is the true restriction of freedom for all the virtues it touts.



The GPL is quite clear in the responsibilities you have: protecting freedom requires taking away the right to be able to curtail it.


Protecting Stallman's narrow, weird definition of freedom that I don't agree with, sure.


Freedom to appropriate and oppress is a weird way of using the word “freedom.”




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