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One fucked up EULA
WMD:
--- Quote from: Ossa ---I won't download, read, open, assemble, compile or in any other way touch the source of a GPL'd file because if I do, if I use any "ideas" contained within in my own source, by the GPL I should make my own source GPL.
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Last I checked, the GPL doesn't cover "ideas" like he says. It covers verbatim code copying.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote --- If I had my way, the GPL would die in a burning ball of fire and anyone who supports its current details would go too.
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I would like the opposite to happen.
H_TeXMeX_H:
There's also nasm ... "the famous Netwide Assembler". Hopefully it does approximately the same thing.
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: "Dumbass who doesn't understand Copyright (Ossa) ---
I won't download, read, open, assemble, compile or in any other way touch the source of a GPL'd file because if I do, if I use any "ideas" contained within in my own source, by the GPL I should make my own source GPL.
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--- Quote from: WMD ---Last I checked, the GPL doesn't cover "ideas" like he says. It covers verbatim code copying.
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The GPL is protected by copyright law.
Copyright doesn't cover "ideas," it covers expression of those ideas.
You could, in principle, not verbatim code copy, but change a few things around and still it would be copyright infringement. However, the point is that it covers code, not ideas.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---The GPL is protected by copyright law.
Copyright doesn't cover "ideas," it covers expression of those ideas.
You could, in principle, not verbatim code copy, but change a few things around and still it would be copyright infringement. However, the point is that it covers code, not ideas.
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Exactly, only patents cover ideas
... what a douche :thumbdwn: Maybe one day he'll get a taste of a good old M$ lawsuit for selling illegitimate copies of Window$. He would deserve it.
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