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Re:US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier pir... by tauwauwau on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:42PM (#24285770)
You are right, thanks for clarifying.

I asked that question as the GP made the case that breaking GPL is equivalent to pirating (breaking any other copyright). But GPL ensures a resource is always shareable and anyone who tries to break it would be limiting shareability of the resource, essentially it would be opposite of piracy.

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Re:US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier pir... by scarface74 on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:47PM (#24285816)
If you use GPL software in non GPL code, you are still “pirating” the code and using it in a way that the person/group didn’t give you permission to use the license. This is no different than sharing any other copyrighted content. The copyright holder controls how the content is shared.
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