] Maybe someone can explain to Darl that the GPL is
] designed so that people receive the value of other
] peoples copyrighted works in return for having made their
] own contributions. That is the fundamental idea of the
] whole license -- everything else is just legal fluff.
]
]
] So not only is Darl wrong when he attacks the GPL as
] being somehow against "financial gain;" the notion that
] the GPL has, of "exchange of receipt of copyrighted
] works," is actually explicitly encoded in U.S. copyright
] law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty Commie
] hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor.

Linus rebuts Darl, characteristically with a great deal more actual effort and logic.

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