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Re: Linux and GPLv2



On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:10:41AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:45:24AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > Fair use is an American perversion. It does not exist in most of the
> > rest of the world in anything like the same form. Anything that relies
> > on the American notion of "fair use" is non-free, because in the UK
> > that means "Non-commercial use only".
> 
> Out of curiosity, what is it about fair use that makes you call it a
> "perversion"?

In opposition to the norm. That's the real definition, once you
discard the arbitrary labels of 'right' and 'wrong'.

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