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[Mark Wells]

On Wed, 10 May 2000 laurent.duperval at cgi.ca wrote:

> Interesting comment. How do you characterise the GPL? In effect, the GPL
> coerces (forces?) you into "freeing" your source code. Mind you, I've always

"Coerces" is the wrong word.  The GPL is often described as "restrictive"
compared to, say, the BSD license, but it's much more liberal than no
license at all, which is what you get with the vast majority of
copyrighted material.

The GPL sets conditions on what you can do with someone else's code.
There's nothing 'coercive' about that.