On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 16:21 -0500, Rob wrote:
> On Mon February 20 2006 16:16, Lee Revell wrote:
> > How can we expect people to abide by the GPL if we don't
> > respect their licensing terms? Stealing proprietary software
> > is exactly as immoral as proprietary vendors ripping off
> > GPL'ed code.
>
> Please don't use the word "steal" to refer to copyright
> infringement. They're different crimes. (In the US, copyright
> infringement is frequently the more severely punished one.)
>
I don't care about the law, morally, it's stealing.
> That's almost as annoying as people who use the term
> "intellectual property" as if you can build a house on it and
> watch it accrue in value.
>
> Rob
>
Received on Sun Feb 26 20:17:14 2006
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