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by rustcleaner 911 days ago
This is bull**! It's time for a new license to throw off the old: The Uniform Pirating License! It's a license which you stick on anything which you need a license, and it conveys all rights and zero obligations to you. Possession of the code is sufficient to run, change, and propagate code. Legal system be damned; we have cryptography and Tor, The State's law here is irrelevant (also when did you give The State license to bully you around anyway?)!

My fix: spin up a .onion to host my distribution of the Linux kernel containing ZFS integrated and BtrFS excised, do not answer abuse/legal emails, don't even have email to receive aforementioned emails. What's the pencil-necked shrimpy IP lawyer at Kernel Foundation going to do? Shut down Tor?

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There are some very creative solutions for getting around license restrictions.

The LAME mp3 encoder originally was a series of patches that could be applied to the Fraunhaufer ISO dist10 release.

Who cares if ACME Inc can't use the UPL due to corporate risk. It would be charmingly ironic if the world's best filesystem could really only be used by petty home users who can utilize the UPL with near-zero risks...