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A comment on Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine... by digi_owl on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:25AM (#13505842)
The tricky bit is that GPL is built on top of copyright. In effect it use the legal precedence of copyright against itself.
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Re:Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine... by cyborgx7 on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:05AM (#13505916)
They weren't arguing from a legal, but from an ethics point of view.
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Re:Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine... by eeZah7Ux on Saturday January 28, 2017 @08:37AM (#13506196)
It's not "tricky", it's by design.
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