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Date:      Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:51:09 +0000
From:      Pedro Timoteo <deh@meganet.pt>
To:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD licence vs GPL
Message-ID:  <20010222105109.A30756@meganet.pt>
In-Reply-To: <3A941B86.29F35473@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:48:22AM -0800
References:  <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma> <3A941B86.29F35473@acuson.com>

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:48:22AM -0800, David Johnson wrote:

> it has more restrictions is ludicrous. That's like arguing you can't
> have free elections in a democracy because otherwise a monarch might run
> for office and win.

Or it could be said that it's like saying that no matter who wins the free
elections, you can't change it from a democracy to a monarchy...

I'm not saying that this is my opinion, but the GPL *can* be interpreted
like this.


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