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apparently the notion of Tivoization was lost in a very short period of time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
When I license something under GPL I'm not asking people to give more, I'm forcing them to not take without giving back.
They are free to use my software however they want and to modify it however they want, unless they want to redistribute it.
Plain and simple.
What's so hard about it?
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apparently the notion of Tivoization was lost in a very short period of time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
When I license something under GPL I'm not asking people to give more, I'm forcing them to not take without giving back.
They are free to use my software however they want and to modify it however they want, unless they want to redistribute it.
Plain and simple.
What's so hard about it?