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Re: blacklash against GPL viral clause

> Stallman "lost the argument"? Really?

Stallman lost his original argument when the LGPL was created.

Personally I loathe the viral aspect of GPL: if I take 1000 lines of someone else's code and add 10 lines of my own then I'm perfectly happy to release my additions. But if I write 1000 lines of unique code but incorporate 10 lines of GPL I don't see why I should be *forced* to make mine free as well.

So the result is I don't ever incorporate GPL code into anything I write - not quite what Stallman was hoping for, I assume. And, for the small items that I have made 'free' I've simply put them into the public domain.

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