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Re: Open Software License v2.1



Bernhard R. Link <blink@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> An elementary point of Free Software is to protect the rights of the
> users, not excluding "bad" ones. (Or will GPL3 have a section
> termination the licence if you breach any FSF copyright?)

RMS is quoted as saying "Misusing a GPL-covered program permanently
forfeits the right to distribute the code at all", which implies that
the GPL doesn't protect the rights of people who have violated it in the
past.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org



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