On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 16:21 -0500, Rob wrote: > On Mon February 20 2006 16:16, Lee Revell wrote: > > How can we expect people to abide by the GPL if we don't > > respect their licensing terms? Stealing proprietary software > > is exactly as immoral as proprietary vendors ripping off > > GPL'ed code. > > Please don't use the word "steal" to refer to copyright > infringement. They're different crimes. (In the US, copyright > infringement is frequently the more severely punished one.) > I don't care about the law, morally, it's stealing. > That's almost as annoying as people who use the term > "intellectual property" as if you can build a house on it and > watch it accrue in value. > > Rob >
