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The "No problem Bugroff" license.
Richard Stallman of the Free
Software Foundation devised, in addition to some marvelous
software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for short). Or
the CopyLeft it is sometimes called.
It is quite a revolutionary document, using the "copyright"
tool to to protect your right to use free software.
Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot
like using a Jackal to guard the hens.
In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted
in modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public
License) and more recently the NPL (Netscape Public
License)
I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will
occur when the Jackal's, (sorry, I mean lawye...
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