On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:40:44AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > This is basically a trick of wording. If the license lets you ship it with > the one-character shell script containing the letter 'w' and charge for > that, then that's good enough.
I continue to assert that this exception is moronic.
It makes a mockery of our defense of software freedom.
I have not yet heard of an application of this loophole that wasn't
motivated my malevolent intent ("We want to fuck over competitor Q who
otherwise would be able to easily distribute our software.").
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