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In article <kp36smINNq77@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
>>Excuse me, but this is idiotic. If I violate the GPL, and I'm sued,
>>boycotted (or whatever) by GNU as a result of it, this is solely _my_
>>fault because of my "hoarder philosophy"?
>What you're forgetting is that there's only one way to violate the GPL.

This is circular, at least for the current argument.  A few messages back, a
major point was made: you don't _know_ what ways there are to violate the GPL,
because there are gray areas that can only be determined by a lawyer.

>Your reasoning is totally backward and bogus.  A legal conflict about
>the GPL can only arise if someone uses GPL'd code in a product and
>attempts to "hoard it" -- sell the binary without the source, and
>forbid their customers from giving it away.

That is like saying that only criminals ever get arrested, so someone who's
arrested must be guilty.

A legal conflict about the GPL need not arise if someone actually violates the
GPL.  It can arise if someone does something that the GPL legally does not
forbid, as long as some lawyer somewhere _thinks_ the GPL forbids it.
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