On Sat, 20 October 2001, "Karsten M. Self" wrote:

> email@greglondon.com (email@greglondon.com) wrote:
> > What exactly was the point of making linking special?

> The intent, as I understand, is to increase the efficacy of the GPL to
> encourage extension of the presense of free software.

Encouraging free-software is a noble intent, yes, but does that mean 
the same law can be used by someone less-noble to force users to 
use only certain software?
See Bob's Music Conglomeration example in recent post.

Greg


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