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davidgerard on March 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The time has come to stand up for the GPL

Note that BusyBox has won every case they've brought. The GPL is pretty well written.

tmwh91 on March 6, 2015 [–]

The worse thing is that when one of the developers tried to write a non-GPL version of BusyBox they were criticised for "taking away the only relevant tool for copyright enforcement of the Software Freedom Conservancy group" - they're as bad as patent trolls.

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