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Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by icebraining on Friday May 12, 2017 @11:08AM (#14324613)
Well, it's not "GPL software", it's software that's also distributed under the GPL. That's being freely distributed at all is a win compared to most commercial software.

And in fact, it could be argued that it's better (for rms' goals) than MIT/BSD/etc, since the proprietary license will impose some restrictions on its usage by other proprietary vendors.

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Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by pessimizer on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:32PM (#14327659)
Definitely better, because it allows for GPLed forks, but not commercial ones (unless the copyright holder wants to compete with themselves.).
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