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by throwup238 605 days ago
> spirit / intent behind the law

What specific law are you talking about?

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the GPL
The GNU General Public Law?
No, the legally binding licenses that fall under the purview of Copyleft enforcement. A critical component of modern Free Software is licenses that absolve the primary author of liability that is implicitly agreed-upon when contributing third-party code. If these contributors disagreed with the terms of the GPL then they had 30 years to realize it.