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LinuxWorld: GPL – Are We Wishing for Something We Really Don’t Want?

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“This is neither a legal conclusion nor a philosophical
statement of bias but merely conjecture for thought.

“Suppose all the programs ever released under the GPL are placed
in a non-commercial public domain trust fund.

“There are a few million lines of copyrighted code in a Linux
distribution. Add all the code at SourceForge. How many lines now?
100 million…?”

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