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jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
> In <eZ9FgB20w164w@mantis.co.uk>, From A to B  manages to 
> contradict himself in the same post, an admirable feat:
> >1. Try to pass laws to make them do things your way.
> >2. Let them do things their way, but don't give them any assistance.
> >3. Tolerate opinions which differ to your own.  Give people the freedom
> >   to make their own decisions, and rely on persuasion to entice them or 
> >   educate them into doing things your way.
> >
>     Have you actually _read_ the GPL Mathew. Your example above clearly 
> puts FSF software into 2, the option you support. How can you say that
> allowing you to freely include their code into yours is _no_ assistance.

Because you aren't doing anything for them.  They're making use of something
you did for other people.  There's a vital difference.


mathew

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