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by madeofpalk 1095 days ago
I don't think this does violate the spirit of "free as in freedom" GPL.

GPL is pretty straight forward - it sets out to give users of software the freedom to modify and run the software themselves. That's the spirit, and I think Red Hat.

It does violate the spirit of "free as in beer" "open source", however.

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> sets out to give users of software the freedom to modify and run the software themselve

No, not just “modify and run”, it's about “modify, run and redistribute without any other restriction than publishing the redistributed code under the same licence”. That's exactly what makes creative common-NC a non-free license by the way.