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by ChickeNES 3364 days ago
How is preventing me from making a closed sourced derivative of dmd in any way protecting my rights as a a user of the source?
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throwaway7645 3364 days ago
A two-edged sword in my opinion. GPL always protects the end-user so they can get the source, but it infringes on the creator trying to make closed source software. So as a user I like GPL, but when programming I tend to mostly avoid it. Mine mine mine! :)
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milesrout 3364 days ago
It doesn't protect YOUR rights as a user, it protects other people from closed source software.
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