From: "Geo." 

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
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> Umm, "free with restrictions" is an oxymoron - a bit like a
Curate's egg.

Free beer is free with restrictions (you have to be legal age) is it not?

> Truly free software is released into the public domain and anyone can
> use it however they want.

That's not just free, that's unregulated. Very few things in this world are
free and unregulated. Air is free but you can't go using it to vent an
atomic reactor then return it to the atmosphere.

> I'm not saying the GPL is a bad thing, but software released under it is
> not free.

It is free, it's just not unregulated.

Geo.

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