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Viral GPL Misconceptions Elegantly Explained

Posted by simoniker on from the outbreak-of-gnu dept.

Scot W. Stevenson writes "Our favorite paralegal Pamela Jones of Groklaw has put together a short FUD-killer on the General Public License that explains why you can't lose your proprietary code if you inadvertently incorporate GPL code. This is not the only text of its kind, but it is so well explained that you might want to bookmark the page for future reference."

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  1. Confused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I thought RMS goal was to make the GPL as viral as possible, thereby ridding the world of proprietary code.
    And now this lady comes along to say that it isn't as viral as we think?

    Who messed up, her or RMS?