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Licensing is already a big mess.

And it is not about revenge. It is about enforcing the spirit of those open source licenses. WordPress uses GPL to force users to contribute to open source.

Do you think the RIAA contributes? Instead they actively attack it.

Do you think the RIAA can evolve for the better? It has an explicit mandate to restrict copyrights. Its existence opposes the software they use.

True, sadly it is unfeasible. It is a nice fantasy.

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>WordPress uses GPL to force users to contribute to open source.

No it doesn't. Users can modify the source and refuse to share it. Sharing only applies if one distributes the code.

This depends on whether the GPL includes (part of) the html-code distributed by the website (seems not, this is the domain of AGPL). GPL is widely known to be insidious.

Using 'force' was perhaps too strong.

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