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:GPL: Why Can't a Lawyer Understand It?
GPL: Why Can't a Lawyer Understand It?
Jun 10, 2008, 21 :45 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (6399 reads)

(Other stories by Sam Varghese)

"Nearly a year after the Free Software Foundation released an updated version of the General Public License--the GPLv3--there appears to be a great deal of confusion about what the license actually means, if one goes by two recent publications.

"In one case, this is due to the ignorance of the writer and I have already dealt with it in detail; in the second, it appears to be a wilful misinterpretation of the conditions imposed by the GPLv3, for reasons best known to the author..."

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