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To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop
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Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> writes:

> 	Simple.  If you do a project based on code that uses the GPL,
> you do not have the option of withholding your source code.  If you do a
> project based on code that uses the BSDL, then you *do* have the option
> of withholding your source code.

Sorry.  I don't know what I was thinking, other than that the thought
was heavy on my mind, at the time, that the GPL had another point than
the one claimed.  (I think I confused his point with a third one to
which I've rightly (?) responded like that in other forums.)

Good of you to read past my too-many parentheses and recognize that
the GPL both restricts AND encourages licensees to "do something
proprietary".  (It restricts one from keeping your work in a derivative
from other GPL users, but it encourages/forces one to keep your work
from non-GPL users.)

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