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Re:Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @11:54AM (#20516485)
> IANAL, but I'm fairly sure banning "stuff like the GPL" would mean banning every EULA and software license, as that's really all the GPL is.

You can specifically ban (or make unenforceable) any subset of copyright licenses without banning copyright licenses generally.

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Re:Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows by jessaustin on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @12:15PM (#20516717)
How would that law be written? If it mentioned GPL by name (which I don't think would be Constitutional?), we'd just use a different name for it. If it zeroed in on particular legal idioms used by GPL (which probably are also used by thousands of other licenses), GPL could be modified to use different idioms. If the law were general enough to take out GPL for good, it would be general enough to take out all software licenses for (very) good.
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