Gordon Messmer wrote:
The GPL allows you additional rights: you may distribute the work to
others.
The GPL only allows those rights under limited conditions.
Standard EULAs give you *no* additional rights, and furthermore restrict
how you can use the software that you received.
The difference is vast.
Yes, most proprietary licenses make no attempt to prevent distribution
of other software that might be combined with it. In the case of
libraries, the whole point of their existence is to permit such
combinations, whereas the GPL prohibits it.
You are so far divorced from reality that I've suspected you of trolling
for the entire discussion. I wouldn't have replied, except that I'm
sure that *some* people actually believe some of the things you say, and
one of the goals of the Free Software movement is to educate people
about the truth of the matter.
But a proprietary license rarely demands that you place restrictions
on how other people can create new things and share them.
Proprietary licenses place absolute and total restrictions on how people
can create and share new things based on the licensed work.
What proprietary library has a license that restricts distribution of
other works that use it?
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