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Specifically, no court anywhere in the world, to my knowledge, has sat down and lined two Free Software licenses up next to each other and tried to determine if, upon creating a whole work based on two works under the two licenses, if the terms of any license was violated and thus the distributor of that whole work infringed copyright of one party or the other.

Thus, people argue about what a court might say. Some lawyers bluster and claim they know the answer when they really don't. [...] In the meantime, though, we have to operate, share code, and (hopefully) uphold software freedom -- with the tools we have.

Bradley Kuhn


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