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LOL where's the lie? if you have to send lawyers after someone for stealing something which was free, it's not free. it's just a cult of flatulence inhalers that think that permissively licensed code is breaking their precious rules by declining to sue innocent people for keeping their own work.

as has been made readily apparent in this thread

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GPL breakers wouldn't be breaking GPL if they kept their own work. They break it when they distribute a compiled work that's only partly theirs, and mainly somebody else's, without sharing the source code for it.

You're more than welcome to build on GPL code and keep your own work. Just don't distribute it.

>only partly theirs

>Just don't distribute it.

I thought it was free as in speech, but ok. Send your lawyers, commies.

But yeah, I'll stick to actually free software like Apache. I don't want to get an extraneous toenail fungus on me.

I said nothing about a lie. But you add only anger to the conversation for no reason. I didn't even say I disagreed with you yet you are on the attack right away.

Take a deep huff of those digestive gases and try again.

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