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by spiffotron 579 days ago
Religion being used to control people? Say it ain’t so!
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This is such a tired trope, especially when made in a forum where a substantial amount of contributors believe that if they release a collection of digital files that are accompanied with the correct words which constitute something called a "license", I am obliged to follow its demands.
I'd actually hazard a guess that most "hackers" would neither read nor place any importance on any textual attempt at restriction of use of software.

What we may quibble over is the readership of this site being more "hackers" or (wannabe) entrepreneurs.

There's no textual restriction. It's the law that restricts you, the text is the thing that makes it legal for you.
Regulation for me, but not for thee?