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Penguin on Thin Ice? (FindLaw)Penguin on Thin Ice? (FindLaw)Posted Jun 26, 2003 18:21 UTC (Thu) by StevenCole (guest, #3068)In reply to: Penguin on Thin Ice? (FindLaw) by dbreakey Parent article: Penguin on Thin Ice? (FindLaw) Another layer of this is that a Penguin on thin ice is just about to plunge into its natural environment, like a rabbit fixin' to get thrown into a briar patch. Referring to the Linux license as "copyleft" is an oversimplification. In an article about law, the author should have either linked to the GNU GPL or at least discussed it superficially instead of being so imprecise. Yes, I know that the above GNU GPL link is under www.gnu.org/copyleft, but I believe that "copyleft" is a very unfortunate word choice. It's a clever pun on "copyright", but "left" has political overtones which, although perhaps in line with RMS's politics, are not in line with that of many others who support the GPL and what it stands for. Left/Right politics should be orthogonal to the licensing terms of the GPL.
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