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The GPL’s Poor Translation Into French

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Matt Asay
Apr 8, 2008

“The cheekiness/gall of Free/Iliad is almost shocking.

“Free/Iliad is a billion-dollar French ISP that is taking
sophistry to new depths. In response to a cease and desist letter
that it either stop distributing with its arguments about why it’s
entitled to heavily modify software licensed under the GNU General
Public License (GPL) without contributing back its modifications,
as Pierre writes…”

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